[Xastir] dbfinfo command not found

[Liz]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 12:13:25 -0000
"Tommy Kane" <coolcamper55 at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> I have scoured the archives and found a thread dating back to 2010 on
> how to get this working but all suggested remedies have either failed
> or I have failed. I am not the sharpest tool in the box on Ubuntu and
> was looking for some basic guidance. I have followed the Installation
> as prescribed in the wiki but seem to fail.
> 
> I also have shapelib in my home/ src folder but when I configured
> Xastir I chose the option to configure shapelib internally.
> 
>  
> 
> I have maps that I have downloaded from Geofabrik.de and have copied
> and used some dbfawk files from an Irish ham site but still need to
> build dbfawk files for location, points. places  to complete the
> task. Without dbfinfo I don't know where to start. Your assistance
> would be most appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> Tommy
> 
> MM0KNE
> 

Have I got this right?
You have some maps which you can display, but would like to improve the
display with a dbfawk file?
You are looking for a program which can read the shapelib so you can
find the names of the database columns?
In a shape file there are a number of files eg cstauscd_l.dbf
cstausd_l.dbf cstausd_l.prj (and more)
Open the dbf file with a spreadsheet program eg Gnumeric, LibreOffice
Calc
You can then read the column headers and those are the names to go in
the dbfawk file.

Liz
VK2XSE