[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #831: v.category options sum, del, and add do nothing

[GRASS GIS]

#831: v.category options sum, del, and add do nothing
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 Reporter:  isaacullah  |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  major       |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
Component:  Vector      |     Version:  6.4.0 RCs                
 Keywords:              |    Platform:  All                      
      Cpu:  All         |  
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 In grass 6.4 on both windows and linux (ubuntu9.10), v.category seems to
 be broken. It'll make a new file, but none of the cats will be modified
 they way specified. Following the directions to patch to vector maps while
 keeping the data in their two databases intact, I used the "sum" function
 to renumber the cats of the second file starting from where the cats in
 the first one left off. The output vector file (from v.category) has the
 same cat numbers as the input! I then tried the "del" function. Same
 result. I tried even adding cats to a vector with no cats. Same result.
 Apparently, at the moment, v.category does nothing but make a new vector
 that is identical to the input vector.

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