e00 to something OGR can read

[Lowell.Filak]

Jerl Simpson writes: 

> I forgot to mention something important.
> I receive this error: 
> 
> ERROR 5: Invalid TX6/TX7 subclass name "-8.6507622E+01 1.6335363E+01" 
> 
> I'm not sure if the program simply halts here and goes no further, if so
> that might be why I don't get the rest of the data. 
> 
>  
> 
> On 1/24/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/24/06, Jerl Simpson <jerl.simpso at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm looking for a program that will convert e00 files to something OGR
>> can
>> > read.  Preferrably ESRI Shape files, but I really don't care.
>> > I found e002shp but it doesn't seem to retain all the information I
>> need.
>> > There might be multiple versions of e002shp or even different authors.
>> >
>> > It would be best if I could do this command line in a *nix environment.
>> >
>> > If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to know.  I've tried to do this
>> > before but with little luck. 
>>
>> Jerl, 
>>
>> I would suggest you use the "avcimport" program to convert the
>> E00 file to an arc/info binary vector coverage which OGR can
>> read. 
>>
>>   http://avce00.maptools.org/

Jerl, 

Is the e00 file you're trying to use named ".e00" or is it ".e01' or ".e02"?
Also, could it be a DOS text file and you're tring to import on Unix without 
first doing dos2unix on it? 

Lowell