On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 06:21:21AM +1100, we recorded a bogon-computron 
collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 12:13:25 -0000
> "Tommy Kane" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I have maps that I have downloaded from Geofabrik.de and have copied
> > and used some dbfawk files from an Irish ham site but still need to
> > build dbfawk files for location, points. places  to complete the
> > task. Without dbfinfo I don't know where to start. Your assistance
> > would be most appreciated.
> 
[...]
> You are looking for a program which can read the shapelib so you can
> find the names of the database columns?
[...]
> Open the dbf file with a spreadsheet program eg Gnumeric, LibreOffice
> Calc
> You can then read the column headers and those are the names to go in
> the dbfawk file.

Or you can use the "testdbfawk" program that comes with Xastir to get at the
dbf header information.  Using the program is referenced in the README.MAPS
file, and in the wiki page "HowTo:DBFAWK":

http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:DBFAWK

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