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- ' $Header: /a/attcmds/expreserve/RCS/expreserve.man,v 1.1 89/01/18 13:07:53 ouster Exp $ SPRITE (Berkeley)
- '
- .so \*(]ltmac.sprite
- .HS EXPRESERVE cmds
- .BS
- .SH NAME
- expreserve \- Used by ex/vi to save edits during crashes
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- \fBexpreserve\fR [\fIarg\fR]
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- When a \fBvi\fR or \fBex\fR editing session is interrupted by a
- crash of the program or the system, \fBexpreserve\fR is invoked
- to save the edits that were in progress, so that they can be
- recovered by invoking \fBvi \-r\fR or \fBex \-r\fR later on.
- If \fBexpreserve\fR is invoked with no arguments, then it
- preserves the information that it reads from standard input.
- If any \fIarg\fR is specified, it preserves all of the edits recorded
- in files in \fB/tmp\fR. For more information than this, read the
- \fBexpreserve\fR and/or \fBex\fR code.
- .PP
- This program should not normally be invoked directly by users; it is run
- automatically by the system.
-
- .SH KEYWORDS
- crash, editor, recover
-