ArcInfo coverage with ArcView GIS 3.x

[Jürgen Heyn]

Good morning,

I received some files which are probably an ArcInfo coverage:

E:\ArcWorld\WRLD3M\RIV3M

13.08.1992 17:53 5.875.041 AAT.DBF

13.08.1992 17:53 299.264 ABN

13.08.1992 17:53 6.144 ABX

13.08.1992 17:53 16.483.072 ARC

13.08.1992 17:53 285.184 ARX

13.08.1992 17:53 215 BND.DBF

13.08.1992 17:53 260.352 CNT

13.08.1992 17:53 87.040 CNX

13.08.1992 17:53 346.880 LAB

13.08.1992 17:53 1.189.376 PAL

13.08.1992 17:53 1.602.634 PAT.DBF

13.08.1992 17:53 87.040 PAX

13.08.1992 17:53 99.072 PBN

13.08.1992 17:53 4.352 PBX

13.08.1992 17:53 1.460 TIC.DBF

13.08.1992 17:53 24 TOL

13.08.1992 17:53 99.328 XBN

13.08.1992 17:53 4.608 XBX

As I am still working with ArcView GIS 3.3 the helpfile states:

Using ARC/INFO coverages in ArcView

In ArcView each theme in a view can represent data from one feature class.
When you add an ARC/INFO coverage to a view you can choose which feature
class in the coverage you wish to use.

When I try to add a theme to a view, only the polygon feature will be loaded
to the view. No question on any other feature source.

I highly appreciate any help.

Thank you very much in advance

Best regards

Jürgen Heyn, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

[Paul Cooper]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:55:05 +0100, "Jürgen Heyn" <j.h...@gmx.de>
wrote:

OK, The coverage is the entire directory RIV3M.

However, this isn't all, and coverages are notoriously difficult to
move using operating system copy commands. There is a missing
directory, E:\ArcWorld\WRLD3M\INFO, which would contain information
that ARC/INFO uses for looking up database files. Now, this looks like
data from PC ARC/INFO (not ArcView) version 3.x, and I am not sure of
the exact utilities. But a search on ESRI's web-site should find a
utility for converting PC ARC/INFO coverages to Workstation ARC/INFO
coverages, and hopefully this will put the data into a suitable
format.

The simplest way forward would be for you to get the suppliers of the
data to use the EXPORT command to create a single file that can then
be imported using the IMPORT71 command - you probably already have it,
but if not you can get it from the ESRI web-site. Copying the contents
of a coverage is very likely to fail, without access to a copy of the
version of ARC/INFO that was used to create the coverage.

Paul
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