.ll 70n .lt 70n .tl 'lostlines'12/15/77'lostlines' .sp .ti +5 If you get a message indicating that lines were lost during a "recover" command, this means that the data base the editor saved indicating 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 replaced by the string "LOST" so that they will be easy to find.