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

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:02:09AM +0200, Radim Blazek wrote:
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> To open a database table in spreadsheet is VERY BAD idea, you can be 
> almost sure that data will be corrupted somehow.

Right:
for example, long tables are destroyed in OOffice (there is a
limit of 32767/65535 rows while a DBF file/SQL DB can be much longer.

I am always "amused" when I receive Excel files with a length
of 65535 rows... :-( In this case there is 99% probability that
the file is already corrupted. GIS tables are often way longer.

There must be at least heavy error checking.

Markus