[GRASS-user] 'ARNing: Cannot open driver 'dbf"

[Markus Neteler]

Hamish wrote on 12/07/2006 07:05 AM:
> Raymond Fu wrote:
>   
>>   I try to exame the location from window explorer, and I can found
>>   the road.dbf in c:\cwgin\home\xxx\spearfish60\PERMANENT\dbf\
>>    
>>   Both command d.rast roads, d.what.vect works fine.   The road can be
>>   displayed and I can use mouse to read the features attributes from a
>>   prompt window.
>>     
>
> if d.what.vect can read the DBF file ok, but g.copy can't, I'm not sure
> why. Does your user name (\home\xxx ?) have a space or non
> alpha-numberic character in it?
>
>
> Can anyone else copy vector maps in windows?
>   

Hamish,

in manage/lib/do_copy.c, 'mkdir' is used which IMHO needs a special
treatment
on Windows. See for example lib/gis/mapset_msc.c

Markus