v.in.arc

I am trying to import an ungenerated ARC-INFO coverage into GRASS.

  I exported from ARC (on a VAX) to GRASS on a SUN SPARC II)
a LINES file, a LABEL-POINTS file and a LABEL-TEXT file.
I typed v.in.arc. GRASS asked me for:
Vector filename: samabsoils
Coverage type: polygon
Neatline?: no
Lines filename: lsoil
Points filename: psoil
Label filename: asoil

GRASS returned:
The LABEL-TEXT file has been scanned. There are 144
lines in the file and 6 columns in the file

Column headers of the LABEL-TEXT file:
        no column header available

Here are the first three lines :
$RECNO AREA PERIMETER MABSOIL# MABSOIL-ID GSL-NAME
      1 -1.13958E+11 1786085.000 1 0
      2 2.861446E+09 413,939.875 2 298 NC092

Then I entered:
Line ID col: 5
GRASS cat val: 4
GRASS att. text: 6

After I hit return, the following occurs:

Working...
ERROR: Premature Text-Label EOF. ID #1005 not found.

Mapset <arc> in Location <mab>
GRASS 4.0 >

ID#1005 is in the LABEL-TEXT file and the points file.
Part of the points file is shown below:

       996 805020.625000 506413.187500
      1005 410506.875000 499552.875000
       999 541679.125000 494253.250000
      1000 657901.937500 503865.750000
Any ideas?