Q: Can't see .shp files in UNIX after FTP ???

[Martin Hvidberg]

Hallo List

I have FTP'ed some .shp (shape) files, from a windows computer to a Unix

(IRIX 6.5) computer. They are both running Arc/View 3.1.
For some reason I can't see the files on the unix computer, when I try
to "Add Theme to View". They are perfectly visible in the normal unix
shell, so the files are okay, but Why can't Arc/View see the files???

Any suggestion might be helpful...

Best regards
Martin Hvidberg

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[Andrew Williamson]

Did you transfer the shx and dbf as well? Make sure you transferred them all
as BIN.
Incidentally, if you install SAMBA (http://www.samba.org) on your Unix box,
you can share the disks just as if it were an NT server and copy files with
standard Windows Explorer instead. And it's free. And Great!
--
Andrew
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/2295/

Martin Hvidberg <Mar...@Hvidberg.net> wrote in message
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[Eric M. Priewe]

Martin Hvidberg wrote:

> Hallo List
>
> I have FTP'ed some .shp (shape) files, from a windows computer to a Unix
>
> (IRIX 6.5) computer. They are both running Arc/View 3.1.
> For some reason I can't see the files on the unix computer, when I try
> to "Add Theme to View". They are perfectly visible in the normal unix
> shell, so the files are okay, but Why can't Arc/View see the files???
>
> Any suggestion might be helpful...
>
> Best regards
> Martin Hvidberg
>
> Please reply only to "news://comp.soft-sys.gis.esri" and
> "Mar...@Hvidberg.net"

Martin,
When I transfere files from WinNT-ArcView3.1 to Solaris-ARC/INFO, ARC/INFO
can only "see" the shape files if the names are all lower case. A shape
file named Part1.shp is not visable to import, but if I rename it part1.shp
it is visible. Maybe UNIX-ArcView is doing the same.
eRIC