Paul Spencer writes: > >If you are adventurous, you could get openev >(http://openev.sourceforge.net) and write a simple python script to >process your shapefile If for some reson you can't get OpenEV working there is also pyshapelib which I find quite handy http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2001-June/000441.html Cheers Norman