lostlines 12/15/77 lostlines If you get a message indicating that lines were lost during a "recover" command, this means that the data base the editor saved in- dicating your files state at the point of crash was inconsistent and that a few of the lines could not be saved. These will always be the last few lines you changed, and the text of these lines will be re- placed by the string "LOST" so that they will be easy to find.