[12075] in Athena Bugs
autocad autosave loses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Sat May 21 16:34:52 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 21 May 94 16:34:46 EDT
From: Richard J. Barbalace <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
Hi.
I'm going through the Autocad tutorial. I realize that autocad isn't
supported yet, but this looks like it might need just a quick fix.
I have a file ~/Autocad/tutorial/site.dwg (copied from the tutorial)
that I'm working on, and occassionally Autocad tries to autosave my work.
It says:
Automatic save to ?]0;xterm * oliver rsaix * 3 * ~/Autocad/tutorial.sv$ ...
And then pops up a dialogue box saying something like:
"?]0;xterm * oliver rsaix * 3 * ~/Autocad/tutorial.sv$" can't open file
OK?
Apparently it is trying to create the autosave filename based on
the xterm titlebar that I start Autocad from. My xterm titlebar
happens to be "?]0;xterm * oliver rsaix * 3 * ~/Autocad/tutorial"
(with ?]0; representing the starting control sequence for setting
the titlebar).
I've briefly looked through the autocad shell script which starts
Autocad, but did not see it setting the autosave filename there.
It would be nice if Autocad used something reasonable for an
autosave filename.
