.ll 70n .lt 70n .tl 'saferecover'12/15/77'saferecover' .sp .ti +5 It is good practice to write a recovered file to a new file and to use the "diff" command to make sure that the recovered file is "sensible" before continuing. Thus after recovering a copy of the file "name" we might issue the editor command: .sp .ti +8 write newname .sp and then leave the editor and do a .sp .ti +8 diff name newname .sp If all seems ok then we can .sp .ti +8 mv newname name .sp and continue by editing the file "name" as usual.