[GRASS5] [bug #3342] (grass) many small v. and db. man page bugs

[Markus Neteler]

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
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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).

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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