[Gdal-dev] VRTWarpedDataset w/ -dstalpha

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 5/20/05, Dardo D Kleiner - CONTRACTOR <dkleiner at cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> I've found that if I 'touch' the dest?.8888 file before warping (without
> specifying "-of vrt"), I get the following error:
> 
> "ERROR 5: Destination band 1 appears to be read-only."
> 
> If I don't specify "-of vrt", even though the output already exists it gets
> overwritten as a GeoTIFF file.

Dardo, 

Hmm, this sounds like a bug.  If you can submit sufficient details in Bugzilla
I would hope to dig into it. 
 
Best regards,
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