I wrote an autosave patch for the community version of QCad some years ago. It's been proven useful in the past. http://www.sax.de/~joerg/qcad-autosave.patch -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)