[Xastir] How to create DBFAWK

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 12:09:42PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <electricity440 at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> I would like to show some names on my shape files and I remember hearing
> that I needed to create a DBFAWK file.
> 
> Can anybody help on creating a DBFAWK file so I can see labels? I am not
> seeing anything right now with the shape files I downloaded from Open
> Street Maps

Look at http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK

It is a somewhat painful process to get shapefile symbology right in Xastir,
but once you get the hang of dbfawk it isn't really that much of a mystery.

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