[Mapserver-users] shapefile programming

[Lowell Filak]

There lies a question ("I'm wondering if I use a DOS window") you could answer/solve for the rest of us.
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by "Kieran J. Ames" <kames at keyspanenergy.com> on Mon, 03 Mar 2003 14:17:13 -0500.

> As I understand, mapscript only works on NT if you use php.
> However, I'm wondering if I use a DOS window and invoke perl, will the mapscript.pm module then work?
> ...Kieran
> 
> Lowell Filak wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like a good case for an example so the perl mapscript program to do just that is at:
> > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PerlMapScriptExamples35ex15
> > HTH
> > Lowell F.
> >
> > The following message was sent by John Hagstrand <john.hagstrand at interageresearch.com> on Sun, 02 Mar 2003 13:01:21 -0600.
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I need a program or programmer to manipulate a Shapefile.
> > >
> > > I want to pull the bounding box out of the SHP file and put it in the DBF
> > > file.
> > >
> > > You see what I mean?  I want to add four columns to the DBF file: north,
> > > south, east and west.  And I want to populate those four fields to indicate
> > > the boundary of each object.
> > >
> > > Do you know of a utility program that will do this?  If not, do you know a
> > > programmer who will write me such a utility program for a fee?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > John
> > >
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