[Gdal-dev] ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" -- Does this even work at all?!?

[Bill Thoen]

I've got a spatial database in postgres that I can extract to shp 
format, no problem. But when I try:

ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" napp1.tab PG:dbname=spatial2 napp1

it appears to build a MapInfo TAB file with no errors (I've read the 
caveats on http://ogr.maptools.org/drv_mitab.html, and that page wasn't 
easy to find either). But when I try to open it in MapInfo 8.5, I get an 
error "Unable to open table napp1.tab." The problem is not with the .tab 
or .dat file; if I rename the .id and .map to something else, I can open 
that table as if it were non-mappable table.

When I check the table with ogrinfo, it appeasrs normal with a 
geographic coordinate system (WGS 84) with units in degrees -- i.e. 
pretty basic. The map features are simple MULTIPOLYGON types. I've tried 
all kinds of variations to try and get a MapInfo table out of this 
utility, but so far the only way that works is to dump it as shp and 
then convert it with *MapInfo's* conversion utility. Not what I was 
hoping for.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or suggest something I can try 
to get it to work?