EXPRESERVE(1)                                       EXPRESERVE(1)


NAME
       expreserve - preserve vi buffers after a crash

SYNOPSIS
       expreserve ["-why vi died"] /tmp/filename...

DESCRIPTION
       Expreserve  preserves your edited text after vi dies.  The
       text can be recovered later, via the exrecover(1) program.

       For  most  systems, you should never need to run this pro-
       gram from the command line.  It is run automatically  when
       vi  is  about  to  die, and it should be run (via /etc/rc)
       when the computer is booted.

       If you're editing a file when vi dies (due to a bug,  sys-
       tem crash, power failure, etc.)  then expreserve will pre-
       serve the most recent version of your text.  The preserved
       text  is  stored in a special directory; it does NOT over-
       write your text file automatically.

       Expreserve will send mail to any user whose work  it  pre-
       serves, if your operating system normally supports mail.

FILES
       /tmp/elv*
              The  temporary file that vi was using when it died.

       /var/preserve/p*
              The text that is preserved by expreserve.

       /var/preserve/Index
              A text file which lists the names of all  preserved
              files,  and the names of the /var/preserve/p* files
              which contain their preserved text.

SEE ALSO
       exrecover(1), vi(1)

HISTORY
       Based on elvprsv(1) from the elvis distribution.

BUGS
       If you're editing a nameless buffer  when  vi  dies,  then
       expreserve will pretend that the file was named "foo".

AUTHOR
       Steve Kirkendall
       kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu








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