Trouble with v.in.arc

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Subject: Trouble with v.in.arc

Greetings!

  This is my first posting to this list, so please excuse any
breaches of Netiquette.

  I am trying to use the v.in.arc function (program?) to read
a file in ARC/INFO GENERATE format. The function cannot seem to open
the file for reading, no matter where I am in the directory structure
and regardless of the protections on the file.

  Needless to say, this is quite frustrating when I can see the
file, vi it, and see no problem with it. I also am trying to evaluate
GRASS for a seminar report which is due in a few days.

  Any help is appreciated. Even that of the, "Well, dummy, it's
right there in the manual" sort.

Harry Sharp

The solution to this problem is indeed in the manual, but it must be
obscurely placed because you are by no means the first user to have missed
it:

The ascii files created with the ARC/INFO ungenerate command must be
placed in a directory called "arc" in your current mapset ($LOCATION/arc)
before conversion with v.in.arc.

(Cf. GRASS 4.0 User's Reference Manual, p. 379, 3rd paragraph
under "Description".)

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David Stigberg
US Army Construction Engineering Research Lab
Spatial Analysis & Systems Team
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