[GRASSLIST:8159] v.in.ascii problem

Dear all,

I know this is surely trivial but I got stuck at the very beginning. Why do I get this message even when trying to import an ascii file, as described in the manual?

v.in.ascii input=/Users/Stefania/Almere/PERMANENT/points3d.txt output=mypoints3d1 format=point fs=| 'columns=x double, y double, z double, label_cz varchar(20), label_en varchar(20)' x=1 y=2 z=3 cat=0 -z
Maximum input row length: 101
Maximum number of columns: 5
Minimum number of columns: 0

x column number > minimum last column number

Yours,

stefania

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I know this is surely trivial but I got stuck at the very beginning.
Why do I get this message even when trying to import an ascii file,
as described in the manual?

v.in.ascii input=/Users/Stefania/Almere/PERMANENT/points3d.txt
output=mypoints3d1 format=point fs=| 'columns=x double, y double, z
double, label_cz varchar(20), label_en varchar(20)' x=1 y=2 z=3 cat=0
-z
Maximum input row length: 101
Maximum number of columns: 5
Minimum number of columns: 0

x column number > minimum last column number

You usually get this error when the field separator (fs=) is wrong.
Check your input file.

If run from the command line be sure to quote the | char otherwise the
shell interprets it as a pipe command. e.g. fs='|'

Hamish