gEDA-user: gschem, howto prevent generation of .sch~ backup files?

[al davis]

On Thursday 29 November 2007, Peter Clifton wrote:
> I'm not sure I wholly agree here. /tmp is often cleared by
> the distro on bootup, and an auto-save backup ought to
> survive a power-failure incident. If /tmp is might be cleared
> on the next boot, we should avoid saving such important files
> there.

You need to assume that /tmp might be cleared at any time, 
perhaps by a cron job that runs every night, removing files 
that are more than xxx hours old.

/tmp could be in memory, not a real disk.

Regardless of what you think of these ideas, software needs to 
work correctly if someone configures their machine this way.

Many times, I have appreciated the fact that the ~ files were 
there.  Please keep it this way, at least by default.