After your first experience with Pcb
you will probably want to save
your work. :s name passes the data to an external program which
is responsible for saving it. For details see saveCommand in
Resources.
Saving also is available from the File menu, either with or
without supplying a filename. Pcb
reuses the last
filename if you do not pass a new one to the save routine.
To load an existing layout either select load layout data from the File menu or use :l filename. A file select box pops up if you don't specify a filename. Merging existing layouts into the new one is supported either by the File menu or by :m filename.
Pcb
saves a backup of the current layout depending on the resource
backup. The file is named /tmp/PCB.%i.backup
by default
(this may have been changed at compilation time via the
BACKUP_NAME
variable in globalconfig.h
). During critical
sections of the program or when data would be lost it is saved as
/tmp/PCB.%i.save
. This file name may be changed at compile time
with the DEFAULT_MEDIASIZE
variable in globalconfig.h
.
%i is replaced by the process ID.