Dear Mike,
I could not agree more. But, if u parse the sample ENC, you will see
that for the ROADWY layer:
>NAME_RCNM = (10:130,130,130,130,130,130,130,130,130,130)
>NAME_RCID = (10:114,103,89,97,99,112,111,108,110,124)
>ORNT = (10:1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1)
>USAG = (10:
It's the output from the ArcGIS "Write Features to Text File (Samples)"
tool. The "format" is documented here:
http://help.arcgis.com/EN/ArcGISDesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00pv0
00z00.htm
Even ESRI use Python to read/write it :)
Apparently it's deprecated though...
Luke
-Original