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[This should ultimately find its way to the TOOL reference manual but for now here's the signature for importing polygon shapefiles]
You may only use the import tool if your object already has shape. The current signature for the create tool follows (we have plans to go to the dataFormat= & fileFormat= parameters). If you really are importing, then ignore the object, space and names parameters.
a[] = create (; object=polygon, space=2, names=N, \ format=shape, dataFile=fileName, {invertX=on/off},{ invertY=on/off})
The invert parameters are optional and default to off.