[GRASS-user] 'ARNing: Cannot open driver 'dbf"

[Raymond Fu]

Thanks.  But my problem is that "copy" is an example of errors encountered.  It ocurrs for many operations in GRASS such as query, import.
   
  Here is another example.
  GRASS 6.1.cvs (spearfish60):~>v.db.connect -p map-roads driver=dbf
  Vector map<roads> is connected by:
  layer <1> table <roads> in database </home/xxx/spearfish60/PERMANENT/dbf/> through driver <dbf> with key <cat>
  GRASS 6.1.cvs (spearfish60):~> echo "select * from roads"|db.select
  DBMI-DBF driver error:
  cannot open dbf database: $GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/
   
  I am using GRASS version 6.1.CVS(grass-cvs) from http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html
   
  any idea?
   
  Thanks in advance.
   
  Raymond
   
  

Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Raymond Fu wrote:
> Sorry, I work in a user level, and know not much about C. Can you
> suggest me what the "special treatment" and how to make the
> "special treatment" by command line or other ways so that the g.copy
> can be run without error?

(it's probably a bug in the code, you'll have to wait for a new version?)


they quick & very dirty way to copy a vector map is to go into
$MAPSET/vector/ and just copy the folder with the vector to something
named something else, then do the same with $MAPSET/dbf/$MAPNAME.dbf
using the same name, and finally update the $MAPSET/vector/$MAPNAME/dbln
file in a text editor.


Hamish


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