From: "Colin Henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:54 AM Subject: RE: MI-L Creating and attaching Object in a table > Your problem here is that you are using a tab file created from an Excel > file. In order to do these kinds of operations you need to attach a map to > your tab, and this can only be done using a native MapInfo file (or so I > believe!).
You are wrong. All tables can be made mappable like this in mapbasic: create map <tablename> coordysys <clause> This works for Excel, text etc. I guess this is also what Khurram was told in private e-mail. But you can't add new fields, pack table etc on non-native (or DBF) files. Regards Uffe _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
