[GRASS5] [bug #976] (grass) v.transform would not read that header of files

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:41:34AM -0700, rgrmill at rt66.com wrote:
> Carl wrote:
> 
> > I'll have to look to see if I can dig something up or reproduce this.
> > 
> > My recollection is that it was a map generated by v.in.dxf.
> 
> That was also true in my case, so I ran some tests, importing vector 
> files with v.in.dxf then exporting them with v.out.ascii.  They 
> consistently have a blank line after the first line of the header.
> 
> The problem appears to be that when v.in.dxf assigns the organization 
> name as "GRASS Development Team" on line 44 of make_header.c that it 
> includes a newline in the string.  The newline is stored in the binary 
> vector file header and when v.out.ascii prints the header it adds 
> another newline.  So we have a blank line.

thanks for investigating!
 
> I removed the newline in the string and it works fine, but I haven't set 
> up CVS write access yet, so the problem still needs to be fixed.

You are still welcome :-)

If you send a diff to me, I can upload for now.

Markus