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[Moses O McKnight <moses@...>]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 17:08 -0300, Alain M. wrote:
> Moses O McKnight escreveu:
> > 
> > Maybe a better way would be to have a flag in the brd file with would
> > indicate that boards were appended. If the flag is not set (no board
> > has been appended to the file) then after appending a board it would
> > prompt the user to rename the board when he went to save it, and it
> > would set the flag in the file. After the flag is set in the file then
> > any further append operations would not prompt to rename the file.
> 
> Appending to my previous suggestion (that Jean Pierre liked), if the 
> name already is "board-app", don't add "-app" again :)
> 
> does it sound good too?
> Alain

I see, "board" would be the name of the current board. I thought you
meant to name it "board-app.brd" Yep, that sounds good. Then if you
want to create a blank board to append other boards into, you could just
name it xxxxxx-app.brd and it would not be renamed.

Sounds good to me.

Moses