rim

[Michael Hill]

In message Tue, 8 Mar 1994 13:54:39 +0100 (NFT),
  martijn at scanner.frw.uva.nl  writes:

> Seeing mail about RIM reminds me of a problem we had which was never
> solved. I'll throw it on the list just to see what others make of it:
>
> we created a rim database using RIM commands (define, columns, tables,
> etc) and loaded it with data using the command
> 	load (database) from (ASCII data file) using (formatfile)
> This succeeded without error messages or warnings.
> Next, we wanted to approach this database from GRASS using the s.db.rim
> command, and found two problems:
> 	- s.db.rim <databasename> fails, giving RIM Error code #1
> (undefined error), so we can't open the database. Also, the database
> doesn't appear when using the option `show available databases' in the
> interactive version of s.db.rim;
> 	- if we try to create a `screen presentation file' by using
> option 13 in the interactive version of s.db.rim, we can't name it
> <databasename> because that already exists. So, somehow, s.db.rim is
> aware of the existence of the database but won't read it, nor show it in
> a listing.
>
> We do not understand what is wrong; our only misgiving is that the
> <databasename>.rimdb3 file seems too small (504 bytes). Should this file
> perhaps contain the missing presentation information?
>
> Hopefully someone out there has braved RIM and can tell us how to solve
> these problems...
>
> Martijn van Leusen
>
Did you check the database in Rim itself? Does it have Site numbers?
S.db.rim is very finicky about Site numbers. Your .rimdb file is too small
containing only the header. This siuggests that your data have not actually
loaded properly. Having sweated through numerous attempts to load data into
Rim (successfully in the end) I know you have to be very patiant and
diligent.

Check the database file from Rim itself.

Try removing your rimdb files and recreating the database from the template
in s.db.rim, and reloading the data directly from Rim.
Then check to see what is there using the select command.
Check very carefully, your format file and the data formats.

Maybe that will help a bit. It is hard to be more specific without seeing
the problem first hand.


Mike Hill


Michael J Hill
Research Scientist
CSIRO Pastoral Research Laboratory, Armidale, NSW, Australia,2350.
E-Mail address: mhill at chiswick.anprod.csiro.au