[GRASSLIST:755] m.in.e00 import - where did the list argument go?

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Hi,

I'm trying to import an E00 file, but it's taking tooooo much time. I was
checking the online man pages at
http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/html/m.in.e00.html and there is an
argument list= that lets you specify which attributes you want to import.
Well, I only need one of the six that my file has, but it seems that this
options is not available anymore (GRASS 5.0.2).

Can anyone comment on this? Is there any way to do this now?
Or to speed up the conversion? Is it normal to take more or less one day to
convert a 300 mb E00 file with 6 attributes?

Thanks,
--
Gualter Barbas Baptista
GAIA - Grupo de Acção e Intervenção Ambiental
http://gaia.org.pt

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it to expose its weaknesses. I ran it for high-mass stars and low-mass
stars, for stars born exceedingly hot and those born relatively cold.
I ran it assuming the superfluid currents beneath the crust to be
absent -- not because I wanted to know the answer, but because I had
developed an intuitive feel for the answer in this particular case.
Finally I got a run in which the computer showed the pulsar's
temperature to be less than absolute zero. I had found an error. I
chased down the error and fixed it. Now I had improved the program to
the point where it would not run at all.
    -- George Greenstein, "Frozen Star: Of Pulsars, Black
       Holes and the Fate of Stars"

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Some more information - on ARC/Info, it took aproximatedly 3 minutes to
convert from E00 to shapefile (SHP). I know that it's ESRI native, but still
it seems that either the E00 import code is very inneficient in GRASS or
something is going wrong...

Em Domingo, 20 de Julho de 2003 15:31, o Gualter Barbas Baptista escreveu:

Hi,

I'm trying to import an E00 file, but it's taking tooooo much time. I was
checking the online man pages at
http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/html/m.in.e00.html and there is an
argument list= that lets you specify which attributes you want to import.
Well, I only need one of the six that my file has, but it seems that this
options is not available anymore (GRASS 5.0.2).

Can anyone comment on this? Is there any way to do this now?
Or to speed up the conversion? Is it normal to take more or less one day to
convert a 300 mb E00 file with 6 attributes?

Thanks,

--
Gualter Barbas Baptista
GAIA - Grupo de Acção e Intervenção Ambiental
http://gaia.org.pt

You know what they say -- the sweetest word in the English language is
revenge.
    -- Peter Beard

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Gualter Barbas Baptista wrote:

Some more information - on ARC/Info, it took aproximatedly 3 minutes to convert from E00 to shapefile (SHP). I know that it's ESRI native, but still it seems that either the E00 import code is very inneficient in GRASS or something is going wrong...

In the grass API, the function for storing attributes verify that the attribute
number you sent doesn't exist. This is obviously unnecessary when importing an
e00 file. The corolary is that you do that for each attribute and that the
verification time increases exponetialy with the number of graphic objets...

This should be corrected in a future release of m.in.e00 (sorry, not enough
time those days ...)

--
Michel Wurtz - Auzeville-Tolosane