debian man page for dbfadd

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NAME
       dbfadd - add a row to an xBase DBF file

SYNOPSIS
       dbfadd filename fieldvalues...

DESCRIPTION
       Adds  a	row to the DBF file named by filename with column values given by the fieldvalues options that follow.	A NULL value is denoted by
       an empty argument.

EXIT STATUS
       0      Successful program execution.

       1      Missing filename or fieldvalues arguments.

       2      Failed to open filename for reading and appending.

       3      Too few values in fieldvalues...

DIAGNOSTICS
       The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:

       DBFOpen(filename,"rb+") failed.

       Got count1 fields, but require count2

AUTHORS
       Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam@pobox.com) is the maintainer of the shapelib shapefile library.  Joonas Pihlaja (jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi)  wrote
       this man page.

BUGS
       Field  values  that  are  too  large  to fit in a field are silently truncated from the right. Numeric field values that can't be parsed by
       atof(3) get undefined values.

SEE ALSO
       dbfcreate(1), dbfdump(1), dbf_dump(1), shpadd(1), shpcreate(1), shpdump(1), shprewind(1)

shapelib							   OCTOBER 2004 						       SHAPELIB(1)