Re: shape file to arc/info coverage

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From: xixax.delete.this.to.reply. Antt...
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 00:00

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The fleshy one known as Kevin A Gray <kagray@acsu.buffalo.edu> did
smite their keyboard thus:

>Hello all,
>	Does anyone know how to convert a shape file to an ARC/info
>coverage so that the polygons (and not the arcs) will have the attributes.
>I have a watershed shape file which I would like to convert into an
>ARC/info coverage.  Feel free to e-mail a response.

There is a FAQ listing about 5-6 steps (shapearc, clean, regionpoly)
to do the job on ESRIs site. Don't have the URL handy unfortunately,
but it's easy and works a treat.

If .AATs bother your overly, you can always create a coverage with
mis-matching items and copy them in using ArcEdit.

Antti
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"It's the worst feeling in the world to love a song and then
discover that what they're singing about is lame" - Kristin Hersh

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From: xixax.delete.this.to.reply.@spirit.com.au (Antti Roppola)
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Date: 1999/03/20
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