[GRASS5] v.in,dxf

[Michel Wurtz]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, David D Gray wrote:
> 
> No, it's substantially similar. But this is the reason why we should
> separate out the two phases of the import - so that we don't have to
> duplicate effort. The other advantage is that we can utilise suitable
> 3rd party libraries to handle their respective formats. Which is the
> gist of what you are saying I think.
> 

I'll probably look stupid, but what is the second phase of the import ?
The process of importing vector is mainly a stream (with some exceptions
when reading the imput file).  If not, you will need a temporary storage
format (on disk, because storing everything in core memory will allways
limit the size of the imput file)

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