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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Grass,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>with </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>v.out.ascii input=<vectorfile>
output=<outputfile></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can export a vector file. I have tested this
feature and I noticed some points which seem peculiar to me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This command creates
.../dig_ascii/<outputfile> with the vectors and
.../dig_att/<outputfile> with attribute-information. According to "Grass
5.0 Programmer's Manual" (Okt 5. 2000) I expected it to also create
.../dig_cats/<outputfile>. This is missing, even thought there are
attributes attached to the <vectorfile>.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then I immediately imported the <outputfile>
again with </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>v.in.ascii input=<outputfile>
output=<someothervectorfile></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I expected that <someothervectorfile> has the
same attributes as <vectorfile>, but it had no attributes at all.
Apparently v.in.ascii did not import the attributes stored in
.../dig_att/<outputfile>. Is this correct ?? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also I compared the format of
.../dig_att/<outputfile> with the specification on page 45 of the Manual.
It does not exactly match, the columns are different.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please let me know if I made an error or if the
modules mentioned above are not working correctly.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>TIA, Stefan</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>