Yes, the problem is the call to CompressedFile.openFile() throws an
exception if the file is not found.

In this case it looks like a try catch block around the call will do the
trick.

Larry

On 9/25/07, Paul Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Larry,
>
> You're right the CompressedFile class throws an exception if it can't
> find the file. Maybe you could add a boolean parameter to it to return
> null instead of an exception if the file does not exist to allow you to
> ignore missing files.
>
> Paul
>
> Larry Becker wrote:
> > Apparently DBF files are required when loading a shapefile archive.  I
> > got this message when trying to load world_vector_shoreline.zip:
> > "couldn't find world_vector_shoreline.dbf in compressed file
> > world_vector_shoreline.zip".
> >
> > If you extract it to a folder first, it loads without a problem.
> > Sounds like the archive code is making unnecessary assumptions.
> >
> > regards,
> > Larry Becker
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