On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Patrick Giraudoux H wrote:
Hi,
I meet a strange trouble writing shapefiles with write.pointShape() from
maptools.
write.pointShape(mylines[,5:9], file=Sxtplinshp, mycoordspt)
Error in write.pointShape(mylines[, 5:9], file = Sxtplinshp, mycoordspt) :
says (p. 6): All file names adhere to the 8.3 naming convention. The main
file, the index file, and the dBASE file have the same prefix. The prefix
must start with an alphanumeric character (aZ, 09), followed by zero or up
to seven characters (aZ, 09, _, -). The suffix for the main file is .shp.
