debian man page for shpcreate

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NAME
       shpcreate - create an empty ESRI shapefile

SYNOPSIS
       shpcreate file shapetype

DESCRIPTION
       Creates	an empty shapefile supporting shapes of the given type shapetype.  Shapefiles actually consist of two files with the same basename
       and extensions .shp and .shx (or .SHP and .SHX) containing the shape data and shape index respectively.	The files to create are determined
       by  first  stripping any filename extension from file and attempting to create the files file.shp or file.SHP, and file.shx or file.SHX for
       the respective data and index files.  The supported values for the shapetype argument are: point, arc, polygon, and multipoint.

EXIT STATUS
       0      Successful program execution.

       1      Missing file or shapetype argument.

       2      Unknown shapetype.

       3      Unable to create the shapefile.

DIAGNOSTICS
       The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:

       Shape Type `shapetype' not recognised.

       Unable to create:file

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

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

shapelib							   OCTOBER 2004 						       SHAPELIB(1)