[GRASSLIST:4641] Re: creating a table from ascii data?

[Radim Blazek]

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 01:28, Hamish wrote:
> I'd prefer (require actually) not to have PostgreSQL installed as a
> prerequisite; I was hoping there would by a DBF (ie simple) solution.
>  (+ I have no idea about Postgres)
>
> All the functionality seems to be in v.in.ascii for importing in points
> mode. This is for line attributes, so points mode doesn't really make
> sense, but a bad hack might to be to assign dummy coordinate values to
> get the table made via v.in.ascii and then link the columns I need from
> that. A better solution might be to add a '-c' flag to v.in.ascii that
> created a non-georeferenced table from stdin + columns='' + catcol= ??
>
> I don't know the database stuff well so I am just guessing here.

I prefer db.in.ascii as copy-paste from v.in.ascii (cca 300 rows).

Radim