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David,
<p>I use this application on both Win XP as well as Linux to create shapefiles.
To properly use this program you need to have ESRI "gen"-format files to
use as input. Examples can be found on the gen2shp webpage (<A HREF="http://www.intevation.de/~jan/gen2shp">http://www.intevation.de/~jan/gen2shp</A>).
I wrote a Perl program which put my geographic information into the gen
format. Pretty much all the information you need (including binary
downloads) can be found on the webpage noted above. You'll probably
have to write some custom code as I did to produce the gen-format files
unless you're just doing this as a one-time shot and edit the text file
by hand (ugh..).
<p>One warning...on the webpage above there's discussion about loading
the "dbf" files using txt2dbf. I'm not sure if this application is
available for Windows. I was able to build "txt2dbf" on a Linux box
and use it there to load attributes into the "dbf" file. For Windows
I've been able to build shapefiles using just "gen2shp" without loading
the "dbf" files. This works fine for -most- GIS programs such as
AV 3.1 and 9.0 (but -not- ArcIMS!).
<p>Hope this helps.
<p>Ken
<p>David Muriu wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Please tell
me how to make a shape file using gen2shp program in Windows O/S.</font></font>
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