arcinfo to grass fomat

Dear Grass-users:

  Recently I read where you can transfer ARC/INFO files to grass by
creating the coverage in a dlg format with the command arcdlg.
Do you need to add a attribute name minor1 and major1 in the pat so that
the labels for the polygons can also transfer over to grass. Also do
you assign the minor1 code to = "coverage-id" and assign major1 = 9999 ?

        thank you
            Daniel H. Rodriguez
            Texas A&M University
        College Station, Tx 77843-2135
                      (409) 845-7201