Wed, Nov 20 2002
09:41:27
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Request created by jidanni@dman.ddts.net
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the *.in.* man pages don't mention the file extensions they deal with
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Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
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The various *.in.* man pages should mention what file extensions they
deal with.
For instance
$ man v.in.arc
does not mention up front that it deals with file.ABC or file.EFG
It says
The v.in.arc program will convert
vector data in ARC/INFO's "Generate" format to GRASS's
vector file format, and bring it into the user's current
GRASS mapset.
Hmm, those files maybe are called file.GEN or file.ARC: who knows. The
man page assumes one knows.
$ man v.in.shape|grep -i shp
is another example showing that the author doesn't think it is
necessary to mention the extensions of files the command deals with,
as the user certainly has years of GIS background.
Oh, the shp file apparently has more to do with r.in.shape ... ok,
wish the v.in.shape man page would mention that.
Mainly all *.in.shape man pages should mention all the things you
might want to do with all the different file extensions one might
encounter.
BTW on the man page it says
NOTE
r.in.shape creates ASCII file first and then run
r.in.poly.
you better say "runs" or else we think we should run it ourselves.
By the way, the s.in.shape man page says
Grass files created have the name extracted from the base
name of the shapefile.
i.e. s.in.shape doesn't accept a out= parameter, whereas r.in.shape
and v.in.shape wont work without one!
also error messages arent informative:
$ s.in.shape /var/tmp/ec5212NW/EC5212NW
ERROR: Unable to process shapefile - Aborting.
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Fri, Nov 29 2002
09:41:39
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Mail sent by mneteler
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Please update the pages for us and send them to us.
Using open source software always invites the user to
participate :-)
Markus |
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Wed, Dec 4 2002
10:20:49
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Area changed to wish by mneteler
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Tue, Jul 4 2006
14:40:22
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Mail sent by guest
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hi,
this report can be probably closed since import
business is done by v.in.ogr which accepts
various file extensions depending on the format.
Markus |
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