[GRASS-dev] table only creation in v.in.ascii

[Moritz Lennert]

On 11/01/08 09:51, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> Yes, it was meant for svn-trunk.
> 
> I just re-generated it and it works without fuzz on
> my fresh SVN checkout (09:45 am CET).
> Try the attached version if you like.
> 
> I will put work on this feature on hold until there is some
> clarification whether these changes are actually wanted ...
> 
> However, I'd like to add the ability to read field names
> from the ascii input file to v.in.ascii.
> Should I add a flag to interpret the first line as
> field labels?
> Does anyone know what the restrictions on DBF field
> names are? Length? 

8 chars

> Special characters?

You should probably avoid anything non-ascii.

Moritz