[Xastir] dbfawk bug?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Jason Winningham wrote:

> I was working on some shapefiles while editing dbfawks with emacs.  For
> those of you unfamiliar with emacs, it keeps a checkpoint (called an
> auto-save) in #filename#, so while editing
> dlg-24k-shapefile-LE01.dbfawk it creates
> #dlg-24k-shapefile-LE01.dbfawk# .  This checkpoint file goes away once
> the file is saved normally.
>
> So, I'm editing a dbfawk and have one of these #filename# files, and
> "add new maps".  xastir dies with
>
> .#dlg-24k-shapefile-LE01.dbfawk: failed to parse
>
> Tried to start xastir again and it died with the same error.
>
> I got rid of the checkpoint file and all is well, but this isn't
> terribly friendly behavior.

That's kind of funny!  Please add it to the bug-list.

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