[Freegis-list] how to read SRTM files

[Eduardo Patto Kanegae]

Hi folks,

I'm downloading SRTM NASA ziped files from 
ftp://e0dps01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/South_America/ but I saw that I don't 
know this file format(.hgt)

runnig "gdalinfo" one .hgt file I only got:

ERROR 4: `N01W050.hgt' not recognised as a supported file format.

GDALOpen failed - 4
`N01W050.hgt' not recognised as a supported file format.

Or my GDAL tools is missing something?

Is there any free software that can read this files?

thanks

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