ThorstenB wrote: > Speculating: what may have happened is that you had an invalid path in > your scenery [...] directory list,
Yes, this is the case. I'm using various directories for Scenery testing and not all of them are filled with Scenery all the time. > [...] fgfs first > reads "preferences.xml", which enables "save-on-exit" by default. Then > it starts evaluating the command-line parameters one by one. Finding the > invalid scenery or aircraft path, it was exiting immediately (due to an > error, which has been fixed already), and never got to evaluate the rest > of the command-line, so "save-on-exit" remained enabled. May not have > happened if --disable-save-on-exit first was first in the command-line... It was. Anyhow, many thanks for this excellent explanation ! Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel