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From: shapiro at zorro.cecer.army.mil (Michael Shapiro)
Subject: Re: v.in.ascii summary
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Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
References: <199305211600.AA01518 at access.digex.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 14:53:48 GMT
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In <199305211600.AA01518 at access.digex.net> zhuang at access.digex.net (Xin Zhuang) writes:


>I had asked our grass group for a help on
>v.in.ascii. I run the following:

>	v.in.ascii
>	v.support
>	v.to.rast
>	r.support.
>But I got a layer with one category only.

>I was told I had to use v.digit if I didn't
>had the coressponding dig_att, which is true.
>However, v.digit is kind of tedious. SO I created
>a dig_att file. I still got the same as
>what I got without dig_att. So I dived into
>v.in.ascii (in src/mapdev/v.in.ascii) and found
>the following, which I think it's a bug:

>>>>code from v.a_b_dig.c<<<

>	char file1[300], file2[300];

>	G__make_mapset_element( "dig_att");

>	    if (0 ==access (file1, 0))
>	    {
>		G__file_name (file1, "dig_att", old->answer, mapset);
>		G__file_name (file2, "dig_att", new->answer, G_mapset());
>		cp_file (file1, file2);
>	    }

>>>>modified code<<<

>	char file1[300], file2[300];

>	G__make_mapset_element( "dig_att");

>		G__file_name (file1, "dig_att", old->answer, mapset);
>		G__file_name (file2, "dig_att", new->answer, G_mapset());

>	    if (0 ==access (file1, 0))
>		cp_file (file1, file2);

>>>>end of code<<<

>Before I report to grass as a bug, I would apprecite if someone
>give a double check.

>Go back and look at the code listed above, I think you would
>agree on what I modified. It's so costly. It took me a few
>hours to come to this point. I'd like to share with everyone
>in the grass group.


Yes, this is a bug. The fix looks right, too. Please report it.
-- 
Michael Shapiro               shapiro at zorro.cecer.army.mil
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