[GRASSLIST:5844] Re: V.import and v.in.tiger.scs

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:03:26PM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Schuyler Fishman wrote:
> 
> > Why does it seem that certain binaries are missing from the 
> > installation of grass from your OpenOsX cd? I find certain commands in 
> > the manual pages that seem to be current, but then the commands do not 
> > exist in grass.
> > 
> > For example, the man page states that there would be 8 option for 
> > v.import, your release offers 3. Also vi.in.tiger.scs does not seem to 
> > exists, as well as a vi.in.tig.rim and a few others.
> > 
> > Is there a place to download these commands seperately? or are they 
> > part of 5.0.1 beta?
> 
> Unfortunately, GRASS manual pages tend to persist long after the
> program which they describe has been disabled or removed. Also,
> programs are often updated without the manual pages being updated
> accordingly.

This will be hopefully solved from GRASS 5.1.x/5.2.x onwards when
the documentation is only generated for commands being compiled.
 
Markus Neteler