[GRASS5] [bug #2820] (grass) v.build: discuss mysterious "support files"

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In the v.build documentation, discuss these mysterious "support
files". Perhaps they are the files that live in .../dbf/... .  Perhaps
they are the files called cidx coor dbln head hist sidx topo ... no it
couldn't be them.

Say just when one would need to use v.build. I mean who would want to
go thru life without "support". And the more support, and the more
often, the better.

Show how one can determine if one doesn't have support, but should,
and if one has support, but it isn't needed, etc.

Also,
Parameters:
   error   Name of vector where errors are written
Say what will happen if we don't give this. Do our errors go up in
smoke...etc? Will we still be informed of them? Say so.

don't say "write topology to stdout"
say "build topology, but only write it to stdout, not the files"
or "don't build topology, instead only write any topology already
found to stdout..."


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Subject: v.build: discuss mysterious "support files"
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