tileindex wont find files with .shp extension in LOCATION

[joel@…]

if you make a list of shape files to use with tile4ms, and leave the .shp
extension on the list of files, tile4ms has no problem, and builds an index,
keeping the .shp extension.

but when you use the index file, you get an error "unable to open a
single tile to use as a template."

workaround is to remove the .shp extension from the list of tiles.