[GRASSLIST:8317] Re: Converting from text to dbf format

[Hamish]

> The raw data is basically a NMEA string that gets awk'd into three
> columns of data: Julian Day, Lat, and Long. After creating a vector of
> all sample sites, I wanted to link a second table to the sample sites
> vector with other attributes
> about the sites that I created in OpenOffice. I guess I would assign
> the second table as layer two?
> 
>  Of course I should have thought of v.in.ascii. I'll give it a go. 


you might also check out gpsd to handle the NMEA stream, be it live or
frozen.

http://gpsd.berlios.de/



Hamish