rim

[martijn at scanner.frw.uva.nl]

Seeing mail about RIM reminds me of a problem we had which was never 
solved. I'll throw it on the list just to see what others make of it:

we created a rim database using RIM commands (define, columns, tables, 
etc) and loaded it with data using the command
	load (database) from (ASCII data file) using (formatfile)
This succeeded without error messages or warnings.
Next, we wanted to approach this database from GRASS using the s.db.rim 
command, and found two problems:
	- s.db.rim <databasename> fails, giving RIM Error code #1 
(undefined error), so we can't open the database. Also, the database 
doesn't appear when using the option `show available databases' in the 
interactive version of s.db.rim;
	- if we try to create a `screen presentation file' by using 
option 13 in the interactive version of s.db.rim, we can't name it 
<databasename> because that already exists. So, somehow, s.db.rim is 
aware of the existence of the database but won't read it, nor show it in 
a listing.

We do not understand what is wrong; our only misgiving is that the 
<databasename>.rimdb3 file seems too small (504 bytes). Should this file 
perhaps contain the missing presentation information?

Hopefully someone out there has braved RIM and can tell us how to solve 
these problems...

Martijn van Leusen