Thanks for your responses, Ross and Daniel.
Looks like appending TABs is out of the question.
I did some further testing but I can't recreate the exact issue I
described that would generate a new SHP file (I swear it did it when I
first wrote about it). It now just says "FAILURE: Unable to open
e
I can confirm that the MIF/TAB driver does not support append/update: it
only supports read-only and write-only modes.
I'm not sure why OGR ends up writing a shapefile though. I would expect
it to produce an error instead.
Daniel
King, Ross wrote:
I'd say that's because OGR will use the dr
I'd say that's because OGR will use the drivers in order to 'guess'
which driver to use to open the directory. I thought that the MapInfo
driver was only read/write (ie no incremental update), so maybe it's
dismissing the "MapInfo File" declaration as it's not able to append?
You could try explicit
