error in shapefile docs: DBF field length

[hamish]

max DBF field length should be 10, not 12.

see

​http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/26086 ​http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/dbf.html http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/shape/dbfopen.c#L716

--- drv_shapefile.html_r12546   2008-03-29 01:21:21.000000000 +1300
+++ drv_shapefile.html.mod      2008-03-29 01:22:30.000000000 +1300
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
 attributes suffer a number of limitations:<P>
 
 <ul>
-<li> Attribute names can only be up to 12 characters long.  Longer names will
+<li> Attribute names can only be up to 10 characters long.  Longer names will
 be silently truncated.  This may result in non-unique column names, which 
 will definately cause problems later. <p>

Hamish

[hamish]

oh, and spelling two lines later,

s/definately/definitely/

Hamish

[Even Rouault]

Thanks, fixed in r14104