[GRASS-user] Re: [Qgis-user] dbf editor for mac for grass and qgis

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 05:53:12 EDT 2008


Just finished installing macports gnumeric and it does have the 65K row limit

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:56 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for that tip.  I'm installing from macports now.
> But I read somewhere that: GNUmeric could accept more than 256 columns
> and more of 65000 rows (needs to be re-compiled)
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Nikos Alexandris
> <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:38 +0800, maning sambale wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My usual workflow is like this:
>>>
>>> All my vectors are in GRASS database and I view them with QGIS.
>>> For editing vector attributes, I basically browse the GRASS vectors in
>>> QGIS then edit the dbf attributes with OpenOffice calc or base.
>>> So far so good.  This time I have a vector with more than 100K
>>> records.  Editing with calc is not possible (hitting the limit of 65K
>>> rows) and its painstakingly slow in OO base.
>> Can you use Gnumeric? It's faster and limitless :-) ...ok, maybe no
>> limitless but reads bigger files than OOo
>>>
>>> I'm looking for ways to speed things up.  I cannot find a decent dbf
>>> editor for mac.  Any ideas?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> maning
>>>
>>
>>
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