[GRASS-user] Re: Cannot create dbf database

[Craig Leat]

Hamish wrote:
>> GRASS 6.4.1 (wgs84lo29):~ > v.in.ogr -e dsn="contours lo29.shp" out=contours2
>
> shapfiles don't like spaces in their names. rename the file(s) to make
> them sql compliant.

Thanks for this. The table is created correctly if I remove the space
from the shapefile name. Maybe v.in.ogr could issue a warning if it
encounters spaces?

Craig