[Xastir] dbfawk error

[J. Lance Cotton]

It's magic!

Actually, Xastir looks at the .dbf file's signature, which is simply the 
list of all fields contained in the .dbf file.

A dbfawk file contains also a list of fields, the signature. If a dbfawk 
file's signature matches the dbf file's signature, then the dbfawk file is 
used for drawing specifications of the shapefile.

The reason there are many dbfawk files in that directory is because there 
are many .dbf file signatures, depeding on what kind of shapefile maps you 
are using (from NOAA, ESRI, converted from Tiger, etc.)

-Lance KJ5O

tbaggett at jump.net wrote:
> When I did this last night, I discovered that there were already about a
> half dozen dbfawk files in this directory.
> 
> How do I know which dbfawk files are being used?
> 
> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I couldn't find any reference about
> how Xastir figures out which dbfawk file to use for which maps on Tom's
> dbfawk HOW-TO, the Xastir FAQ/manual, or in the archives several months.


-- 
J. Lance Cotton, KJ5O
http://map.findu.com/kj5o-14
joe at lightningflash.net