[GRASS-dev] QGIS/GRASS failure of v.in.ogr

Hi,

I got the following mail today about QGIS 0.9.0 (I assume the
preview version) on Windows:

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:16:44PM +0200, El. wrote:

   I have a quick question for you, I have installed QGIS 0.9.0 Ganymede on a
   Vista computer (from a colleague) and contrarily to what I have
   experienced on my PC (no problems whatsoever), we seem to have a problem
   when we want to create dbf files.
   eg using v.in.ogr or v.in.db
   Each time we get the following error message:

   v.in.ogr dsn=C:\training\exercise3\rivers.shp output=gr_rivers -o

   Over-riding projection check

   Layer: rivers

   Invalid argument: can't _spawnl

   Cannot open driver 'dbf'

   Cannot open database C:/EpiGIS/grassworkingdir/Kenyadata/Els/dbf/ by
   driver dbf

   Finished with error

   And we are not able to solve it. I have tried using the mingw shell but to
   no avail. I have also copied my directory structure, which works fine on
   my pc to hers but also no solution. We have created the dbf dir by hand
   but also no solution....

This is probably related to the fact that winQGIS 0.9 preview AFAIK contains
a GRASS 6.2 copy. Could this be fixed later on (hence, we want 6.3.0 to be
packaged)?

Markus