[Xastir] dbfawk problem

[James Jolin]

On 11/13/2011 08:56 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> 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.
>
Tnx for the info, Tom.  Would you have the url for the web site for the 
mz files?
You know I think I got those mz files with NWS-get script...is that 
possible?
Jim
wa9arb