[postgis-users] pgsql2shp - Could not create dbf file

[Paul Ramsey]

Are you running it in a directory where you have write permissions?

On Mar 20, 2006, at 7:33 AM, Fay Du wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
>      I got an error when I use pgsal2shp.
>
>      My server is Linux
>
>      The command I used is: pgsql2shp -f newroads gisdb testarea
>
>      Where, newroads is my out put file name, gisdb is database  
> name, and testarea is table name.
>
>      After hit enter button, I got the message:  Initializing...  
> Could not create dbf file
>
>
>
>      What was wrong? Any help will be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Fay
>
>
>
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