DEM's

Hello Grass users! If you can tear yourselves away from hammering the
spammers and spammees how about a little help for struggling users
(obviously not computer geniuses!) regarding DEM's.
  We have managed to rasterize a labeled autocad topo contour map
and would like to produce a DEM raster map layer from this file in GRASS.
I can't find any reference to a procedure for the creation of a DEM from
such a rasterized contour map. I suspect it will bite me soon after
sending this note.
Thank you for the help, Happy holidays!

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  * DAVE BARNES *
  * Geology Dept. *
  * Western Michigan University *
  * Kalamazoo, MI 49008 *
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  * barnesd@lab.cc.wmich.edu *
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