[GRASSLIST:5781] Re: v.in.ascii, grass6.0 binary version for cygwin

[Moritz Lennert]

On Tue, February 15, 2005 14:46, Jan Bartholdy said:
> Dear All,
> I have imported an ASCII table (tab's as field separators) into grass
> without problems using v.in.ascii input= output= without any arguments
> (using arguments like columns="...", the problem is the same).
> All coordinates are imported and the correct number of colums and their type
> was recognized. After that, an error message occur: mv: cannot move
> /home../../.tmp/Jan1/5164.dbf to /home/.../topo/dbf/species_1.dbf:
> permission denied.
> After that, the module building topology etc.
>
> The 5164.dbf file remains in the .temp/Jan1 folder.
>
> With d.vect, I can display the points, but the labels are not present.
> Db.colums gives an error : DBMI-DBF driver error: Table species_1 does'nt
> exist
>

This looks like you do not have permission to write to the second directory.
Try to go to the directory and do a "touch test.dbf" or could you do an ls -ld
on the second directory (and its parents) to show the permission settings ?

Moritz