[GRASS-user] trouble with dbf under WINGRASS

[Moritz Lennert]

On 15/02/08 22:05, Niels Thevs wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> last week we had a workshop about WINGRASS (grass 6.3 CR$) and Q-
> GIS (0.9.1) with students who use satellite images for their theses.
> We used 20 computers all with the same software WINGRASS (grass 
> 6.3 CR$), MSYS, TCL 8.4, and Q-GIS (0.9.1). We encountered the following 
> problems with the dbf files:

Thanks for the feedback. What does 6.3 CR$ mean ?


> On 2 out of 20 computers no dbf file was written when we imported 
> shape files into GRASS.
> We were not able to use v.to.db to cvalculate areas of polygons.
> The commands to add or remove columns did not work.
> When we intersected vector layers about 4 out of 20 computers did 
> not wirte a new dbf file for the intersection result.


This sounds like a problem with the dbf driver which should be corrected 
in the RC4 release.
Are you sure all computers are using the same software ? Are there any 
other differences between computers (OS ?).

Moritz