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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:51:51 +0200
From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
Organization: Logical Tracking and Tracing International AG, Switzerland
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To: Fay Du <fay.du@versaterm.com>
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Subject: Re: pgsql2shp - Could not create dbf file
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Hi, Fay,

First, this would be better posted to the PostGIS lists, as pgsql2shp is
a PostGIS utility, and not a PostgreSQL SQL query.

Fay Du wrote:
>      The command I used is: pgsql2shp -f newroads gisdb testarea
> 
>      Where, newroads is my out put file name, gisdb is database name,
> and testarea is table name.
> 
>      After hit enter button, I got the message:  Initializing... Could
> not create dbf file

It seems that there was an error creating the newroads.dbf file - each
shapefile consists of corresponding .shp, .dbf and .shx files.

Do you have permissions on the directory to create those three files?

Markus
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