recover 12/15/77 recover When the system crashes or the editor bombs you should be able to recover the buffer you were working on to within a few lines of changes of where you were. When the system reboots, you may receive mail telling you the name associated with the buffer which was saved. You can then recover this file by executing the editor in the directo- ry where the file belongs and giving the editor the command: recover name where "name" should be replaced by the name of the file you lost. Before writing out the retrieved file buffer you should note the date it was saved. It is possible for more than one buffer to be saved for a particular file. In this case, a single "recover" command will retrieve one of these (arbitrarily). To get the other saved buffers you can issue more "recover" commands. For more information about precautions you should take when re- covering a file do "help saferecover"; for information on the "lost lines" diagnostic during recovery do "help lostlines".