This concerns export of data to the ESRI .SHP fileset - (.SHP-.SHX-.DBF +/- .PRJ)
Although with MI 6.5 we can export to ESRI .SHP file using the UT, that is deficient in that SHP by itself doesn't support a projection. Is there a MB routine available to write the (ESRI-format) .PRJ file from a loaded MI table? (BTW there are a couple of people working on control of the UT - it would be a useful feature of a project to include this ability) Further question - I discovered what everyone else knows, I guess - that SHP doesn't support text. So what is the best procedure to get "text" (as text or labels) from MI versions (v6.5 is of interest to me - but perhaps older versions too) into a form that can be used by a "SHP-consuming" GIS program? One idea I have is to put all "text" into attribute fields that are exported into the .DBF and then read that out again within the "SHP-consuming" program. There are many programs that read SHP. IL Thomas
