[GRASS5] [bug #4250] (grass) v.out.ogr: CHAR columns are trimmed to 80 chars when writing shp

[Hamish]

> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=4250
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> Subject: v.out.ogr: CHAR columns are trimmed to 80 chars when writing
> shp
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> I have a vector with a table containing CHAR column long for 249
> chars, using DBF driver. Within Grass it works fine. After exporting
> to a shapefile with v.out.ogr, the 249 char long column is trimmed to
> 80 characters only.


what does 'dbview -e' say about the dbf coulumns before and after export?

what if you just copy the $MAPSET/dbf/ file to be with your .shp file?


Hamish