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    On 20/06/2012 14:52, Micha Silver wrote:
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      20/06/2012 13:09, J22lill wrote:
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        <pre wrap="">I have to convert lines into points using  the v.to.points command, but it
doesn't succeed. Also, I am not particularly familiar with GRASS yet. 

I always got the same error:
/v.to.points input=gr_ne_water_clip_lines@Kodutoo2 type=line llayer=1
"output=C:/Documents and Settings/Kasutaja/My Documents/Dropbox/EMU
PhD/EpiNOVA GIS/Assignments/Kodutöö2/kodutöö
vol2/vietnam_ne_water_linestopoints.shp" dmax=100 -v
Illegal filename. Character  not allowed.

Illegal vector map name . Character ':' not allowed.
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      As the error says, you can't have the ':' in the path name.<br>
      Try output="\Documents and Settings\Kasutaha\...." without the c:<br>
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    Ooops, I meant:<br>
    output="vietnam_ne_water_linestopoints.shp"<br>
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      Micha<br>
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        <pre wrap="">Output vector map name is not valid map name
Finished with error/

Can somebody help me? 

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