[GRASSLIST:9791] Re: Bash shell scripting question for batch arch iving Grass vectors

[Florian Kindl]

On 11.01.2006, at 16:04, Patton, Eric wrote:

>
> Do you know why specifically it may not be the best way to export  
> vectors
> (or rasters) this way? Assuming the target location the tarred  
> vectors are
> going to has the same projection and datum, can't it be dragged and  
> dropped?
>

My concern is that there may be some other, necessary, information  
outside the 'vector' directory. In 'dbf', for example.
An export-procedure should take care of those as well, while just  
tarring the content of 'vector' does not.

-flo.