[GRASS-dev] v.edit map

[Moritz Lennert]

On 09/07/09 17:17, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2009/7/9 Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>:
>> With the security backup copy (in the same logic as many text editors, etc),
>> you will always have the security (but can disable it if you prefer), but
>> you can keep the same map name.
> 
> what name should have backup copy, user defined or determined by the
> module? I just think that this approach breaks standard GRASS CLI
> rules. Cited from programmers manual:
> 
> "Each module which modifies and writes data must read from input= and
> write to output= so that data may not be lost. For example v.spag
> works on map= at in grass5.0 but if program (system) crashes or
> threshold was specified incorrectly and vector was not backuped, data
> were lost. In this case map= option should be replaced by input= and
> output="

If this is the rule, than you are right. Any way of making output=input 
with the --overwrite option ?

Moritz