1.  tried to read the generate files file_00001..00024 
    into arc/info via the generate command:
    generate file_000n
    input file_000n
    line
2.  Kept getting errors; with line number in file;
    discovered that what should have been END was
    actually ND; and ND occured randomly in the files. 

To fix this problem with the generate files:
3.  awked file_00001..00024 to change from variable record 
    length to standard record length.
    (e.g. awk '{printf("%-63s\n",$0)}' ../file_00001 > file_00001a)
4.  Read each fine into sas; corrected the problems then
    wrote out a corrected version of file_00001..file_00024.
5.  In arc/info read in each of the files file_00001..00024
    into coverages (file_01 .. file_024)
    with the arc/info generate command:
    (generate file_n
     input file_000n
     lines)
6.  Build line topology for each coverage file_00001..00024
7.  Ran project define using the parameters specified in the
    MS Word 6.0 doc file.
    (e.g. projectdefine cover file_00001
     projection utm, zone 13 or 14 as appropriate, units meters).
8.  exported each file file_01 .. file_24

Note I named the coverages file_01 .. file_24 because of the way
arc/info structures coverages.  A coverage is a subdirectory
containing several files.  If I had not changed the names I would
have overwritten the data files.

word 6.0Read in the corrected file_00001..file_00024 one
    at a time line of each file as a character string;
    did a frequency distribution of END and ND on eac