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Serial Number 3342
Subject many small v. and db. man page bugs
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Queue grass
Requestors jidanni@jidanni.org
Owner none
Status resolved
Last User Contact Sat Jun 11 12:31:48 2005 (3 yr ago)
Current Priority 30
Final Priority 70
Due No date assigned
Last Action Sun Oct 16 06:44:05 2005 (3 yr ago)
Created Fri Jun 10 20:43:23 2005 (3 yr ago)

Transaction History Ticket 3342


Fri, Jun 10 2005 20:43:23    Request created by jidanni@jidanni.org  
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Subject many small v. and db. man page bugs
From Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Date Sat, 11 Jun 2005 02:40:14 +0800
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$ man v.to.db
DESCRIPTION
v.to.db load values from vector to database.

Add there "or report to stdout" or something, otherwise one needs to
read deep into the man page to find out v.to.db can do that.

$ man db.execute
       echo 'create table soils ("cat" int, "soiltype" text)' | db.execute
But the user will ask "I found I didn't need the double quotes".
SEE ALSO
       ...db.tables, GRASS SQL interface
You mean
       ...db.tables(1), sql(1).
$ man db.describe
Same problem as above, and also "GRASS 5.7 tutorial pages" embedded
into the man page. Best not to embed version numbers there.

$ man v.in.ascii
       columns=string
              Columns definition for points mode in SQL style, for example:

       x=integer
              Number  of  column  used as x coordinate (first column is 1) for
points mode.  Default: 1

I there a missing example, or is x=integer part of it?  The user can't
tell by the indentation...

Why the billion newlines?
$ man v.in.ascii |sed '/are as follows:/,$!d'|od -c|sed 's/[0-9 ]\+//g'
Theprimi
tivecodesarea
sfollows:\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Thecoordinates

$ man v.to.points
       v.to.points creates points along input lines.
OK, but also mention what ends up in the database files, just the
points created, or other previous things too.  And what layers they
end up on.

$ man v.db.connect
   Connect vector map to database (PostgreSQL driver)
       db.describe -c map=vectormap <--Remove this whole line!

P.S.:
$ ls grassdata/shangcheng/addressing/dig_att
eeee  kk
I must have made them somehow, but I can't list them with
g.list. I even tried:
IFS=, set -x rast,rast3d,vect,oldvect,asciivect,\
icon,labels,sites,region,region3d,group,3dview
set $@; for i do g.list type=$i;done

[Sorry once again to send fragments, but it takes about a minute to
send each email, so tough to fit into one modem call... will use
separate messages if more than just fragments...]


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Subject Re: [GRASS5] [bug #3342] (grass) many small v. and db. man page bugs
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:43:23PM +0200, Request Tracker wrote:
> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=3342
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> $ man v.to.db
> DESCRIPTION
> v.to.db load values from vector to database.
> 
> Add there "or report to stdout" or something, otherwise one needs to
> read deep into the man page to find out v.to.db can do that.
> 
> $ man db.execute
>        echo 'create table soils ("cat" int, "soiltype" text)' | db.execute
> But the user will ask "I found I didn't need the double quotes".
> SEE ALSO
>        ...db.tables, GRASS SQL interface
> You mean
>        ...db.tables(1), sql(1).

AFAIK this was already fixed time ago.

> $ man db.describe
> Same problem as above, and also "GRASS 5.7 tutorial pages" embedded
> into the man page. Best not to embed version numbers there.

Right, was already fixed.

> $ man v.in.ascii
>        columns=string
>               Columns definition for points mode in SQL style, for example:
> 
>        x=integer
>               Number  of  column  used as x coordinate (first column is 1)
for
>               points mode.  Default: 1
> 
> I there a missing example, or is x=integer part of it?  The user can't
> tell by the indentation...

I don't understand the question.
 
> Why the billion newlines?
> $ man v.in.ascii |sed '/are as follows:/,$!d'|od -c|sed 's/[0-9 ]\+//g'
> Theprimi
> tivecodesarea
> sfollows:\n\n\n\n\n\n
> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
> Thecoordinates

?
Looking at
 g.manual -m v.in.ascii
it doesn't look too strange.

> $ man v.to.points
>        v.to.points creates points along input lines.
> OK, but also mention what ends up in the database files, just the
> points created, or other previous things too.  And what layers they
> end up on.
> 
> $ man v.db.connect
>    Connect vector map to database (PostgreSQL driver)
>        db.describe -c map=vectormap <--Remove this whole line!

Why?

> P.S.:
> $ ls grassdata/shangcheng/addressing/dig_att
> eeee  kk
> I must have made them somehow, but I can't list them with
> g.list. I even tried:
> IFS=, set -x rast,rast3d,vect,oldvect,asciivect,\
> icon,labels,sites,region,region3d,group,3dview
> set $@; for i do g.list type=$i;done

Since dig_att is usually not created in GRASS 6, it might be a residual
of GRASS 4/5 operations.

> [Sorry once again to send fragments, but it takes about a minute to
> send each email, so tough to fit into one modem call... will use
> separate messages if more than just fragments...]

Sounds promising.

Markus

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Mon, Jun 13 2005 01:27:42    Mail sent by jidanni@jidanni.org  
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From Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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H> AFAIK this was already fixed time ago.
So Debian is always quite late. Sigh.

>> $ man v.db.connect
>> Connect vector map to database (PostgreSQL driver)
>> db.describe -c map=vectormap <--Remove this whole line!

H> Why?

First may I ask you, does db.describe even have a map= parameter?!


Sun, Oct 16 2005 06:42:17    Comments added by dcalvelo  
Point by point, they have all been resolved: last remaining was db.describe map=
Sun, Oct 16 2005 06:44:05    Status changed to resolved by dcalvelo  
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