Where is my dialog?

What is FILEDIA? Well, it is a system variable that controls weather or not commands bring up the dialog box. I am sure this has happened to a few of you guys and gals. You click the open or save button and the dialog box doesn't open but instead it asks you to type in the file name... WITH THE WHOLE PATH!!! WHAT!!!! I know a few of you who couldn't fix it ended up typing out the entire part.

First, to fix this all you have to do (usually) is type FILEDIA and set it to 1. Now everything should be set back to the way they should be. Another variable that might control this is CMDDIA. This should be set to one also, unless you like typing everything out.

I used to deal with this happening a lot with Land Desktop, usually when trying to set an alignment current. What happens is a lisp routine that switches the FILEDIA to 0 got interrupted and FILEDIA never got set back to 1. This happens when you start a command and then half way through you hit the Esq key to get out, usually about 20 times because you realized that you could mess things up.

If this post helps one person out I will feel as though it was success.