[GRASS5] grass5.7 v.shape.register: Illegal vector map name <communes.shp>. Character <.> not allowed.

[Moritz Lennert]

Hello,

v.shape.register causes an error when trying to register a shape file:

GRASS 5.7.-cvs:~ > v.shape.register SHAPEFILES/communes
Registering SHAPE file into GRASS...
Illegal vector map name <communes.shp>. Character <.> not allowed.
ERROR: Map name not SQL compliant.
communes.shp is registered now (first layer only).
The SHAPE files (.shp, shx and .dbf) were copied to:
/data/GRASSDATA/BELGIQUE5.1/shp

Trying to display the map, I get the same error:

GRASS 5.7.-cvs:~ > d.vect communes.shp
Illegal vector map name <communes.shp>. Character <.> not allowed.
ERROR: Map name not SQL compliant.

When importing the file to native grass5.7 format with v.format,
everything works fine.

Moritz