GDAL/r.in.gdal and attribute support (vat.adf)

[Markus Neteler]

Frank,

today I imported a AIGRID (binary) into GRASS and realized that
the vat.adf is not imported. It would be great to have this feature.

For illustration I have uploaded:
  sample_aigrid.tar.gz
and the related cats file
  soil_covBZ.grasscats
which I contructed manually from  analyzing the vat.adf. 
Its structure seems to be sequential.

If GDAL is able to "send" the attributes, we may write the
cats ASCII file in the location.

Thanks in advance,

 Markus