reading US Army DTM

Hello GRASS users

After monthes trying to get it I got the US Army DTM for Portugal.
I received 5 scennes, in the form of 15 ascii files, apparently 3 files per
scenne (two header like, small and a big one). The files are now available on
disk.
We tried command
  m.dmaUSGSread
but we allways get the answer
0-cols
0-rows

Any one with some experience in the subject??

thanks for the answer,

Joao Ribeiro da Costa
jrc@fct.unl.pt
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Environmental Sciences Department
Address: Quinta da Torre,
         Monte da Caparica 2825
         Portugal
Tel: 351 - 1 - 2954464