[GRASS5] db.oodbfedit: a _very_ simplistic approach to dbf attribute editing

[Radim Blazek]

Moritz Lennert wrote:
>>To open a database table in spreadsheet is VERY BAD idea, you can be
>>almost sure that data will be corrupted somehow.
> 
> Could you explain this. I have used this procedure quite often without any
> problems.

If you know what you are doing it is possible, however people who are 
not able to define 'data source' can sort one column only etc.

>>Isn't it possible to open the table as "data source"?
> 
> Yes, but I don't know how to do this automatically.

I thought that OO could have some scripting support and a script could 
be run from command line, but I dont know if anything like that exists.

Isn't it possible to open the dbf file with knoda directly?

Radim