[GRASSLIST:8298] Converting from text to dbf format

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I should have included this question in my last post on dbf driver size
limits... How do you get a really big text file with about 300k coordinates
into dbf format in the first place?
Running db.tables doesn't show text files, and renaming the file extension
doesn't work, either. Too big to edit in OpenOffice.

I thought maybe I could cram the text file through v.in.db, but alas I get
'cannot select cursor' errors; not that I really expected it to work, just
tried it for fun.

Is there maybe a 3rd party utility that anyone knows of that will do the
conversion?

Thanks,

~ Eric.

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Eric Patton

Technologist, Geo-Spatial Data Services
Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic)
Natural Resources Canada
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada B2Y 4A2

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I should have included this question in my last post on dbf driver size
limits... How do you get a really big text file with about 300k coordinates
into dbf format in the first place?

v.in.ascii

What format is the raw data in?

Hamish