[Xastir] dbfawk problem

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 08:25:06PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jjolin at itol.com> flavor, containing:
> Gents,
> What is this little problem:
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for mz01jn10.shp!  Using default.
> 
> Jim, wa9arb
> 

Our dbfawk for the nws mz files doesn't work for your 1 June 2010 shapefiles.

Try downloading a more recent set of MZ files.  We have a set of DBFAWKs for
2009 and 2011, but nothing for 2010.  

NWS routinely modifies the names of the fields in their shapefiles with no 
apparent rhyme or reason.  It means that our dbfawks for those shapefiles 
become obsolete every year or two.

Your choices are to use a set of shapefiles for which we already have working
dbfawks, or modify a dbfawk to work with the file you have.  It is usually
just a matter of figuring out what the signature is and making a copy of
an existing dbfawk to work with that signature.

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