[R] reading "surfer" files

[RagingJim]

The problem is, if I use read.table I get "Error in
read.table("HeatLow_maphhs000.19940101010000") : 
  duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed"

if I try "table<-read.table("HeatLow_maphhs000.19940101010000",sep=" ")"

Then I get:

Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, 
: 
  line 1 did not have 7 elements

Because the first 4 lines in the file will always read something like:

  "DSAA
   64   64
  0.5000000E+04  0.6350000E+06
  0.5000000E+04  0.6350000E+06
 -0.2328914E+02  0.2786890E+03"

Obviously I am doing somethin incorrectly with the read.table input. But
being a very new user my R understanding is still fairly limited.
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