[GRASS5] s.in.dbf

[Michael Barton]

Last Spring, when I was doing a lot of testing, trying to bring my 
archaeological research data into GRASS, I ran into a problem with 
s.in.dbf. Basically, it didn't work right. Sometimes it wouldn't import 
anything and other  times it would import the site points (i.e., xy 
coordinates) and text fields, but remaining fields would go to 0.

Various people were helpful and the problems were finally reported  as 
solved in the CVS. I couldn't test it at the time as I was unable to 
build grass for a variety of reasons.

A short time ago I was able to build version 5.3 successfully. I just 
tried s.in.dbf and it worked (that is didn't work) as before. It 
imported my test dbf file, put the points in the correct place, put all 
the field names correctly in the description line, then misread the 
actually number of numeric fields (6 instead of the proper 11) and set 
all values to 0.

Is this because 1) the old version rather than the fixed version 
somehow  is included in the CVS snapshot of GRASS 5.3? or 2) because 
the fix (which I was never able to test before) didn't really fix the 
problem and no one knew that until now? Has anyone else had any 
problems with this? Is there a secret codeword I am missing ;-)

I'd  like to tell my class here at Valencia that it works (it came up 
this week which prompted me to try it again).

Saludos
Michael Barton
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C. Michael Barton, Professor
Department of Anthropology
PO Box 872402
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
USA

Phone: 480-965-6262
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