[GRASSLIST:9235] Re: v.in.db from MS Accesss

[Jachym Cepicky]

Support of MS Acces on Linux is very poor -- GRASS does not support it
as well. Try to convert it to DBF or PostgreSQL.

Jachym

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:09:22PM +0100, Josip Vrlić wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have database in MS Access and I want to make vector map from that database. I use Cygwin for run Grass 6.1.
> When I try to connect I have folowing error:
> 
> v.in.db driver=odbc database=$GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/svjetla.mdb table=svjetlo x=x y=y key=id_svjetlo output=svjetla 
> DBMI-ODBC driver error: SQLConnect():
> [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Invalid string or buffer length (0)
> 
> 
> Cannot open database '$GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/svjetla.mdb'
> 
> Cannot open database $GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/svjetla.mdb by driver odbc
> 
> What I have to do?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Josip Vrlic
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