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EVE SAVE_FILE_AS — VMS 5.5-2H4

 SAVE FILE AS

 Saves your edits, writing out the current buffer to a file you specify,
 without ending the editing session (similar to WRITE FILE).

 Example:

    The following commands open a file named ROUGH.DAT in the current
    window and then save your edits as a file named FINAL.TXT, rather than
    as a new version of ROUGH.DAT:

       Command: OPEN rough.dat
                  .
                  .
       Command: SAVE FILE AS final.txt

 Usage notes:

 o  Specifying an output file not change the buffer name, but does
    associate that file name with the buffer for later SAVE FILE or WRITE
    FILE commands and for exiting (except with system buffers).

 o  If you do NOT specify an output file, EVE asks for one.  If you then do
    not specify a file name, EVE uses the output file associated with the
    buffer, if there is one (same as SAVE FILE).  Typically, this is the
    same as the file specified when you invoked EVE or when you created the
    buffer with the GET FILE, OPEN, or OPEN SELECTED command.

 o  To check the output file of the buffer, use SHOW.

 o  SAVE FILE AS closes the buffer-change journal file (if there is one).
    Subsequent changes to the buffer start a new buffer-change journal file
    (unless you disabled journaling for that buffer).

 o  You cannot use SAVE FILE AS to write out a buffer other than the
    current buffer.  However, on exiting, if any buffers were modified, EVE
    asks if you want to write out those buffers.

 Related topics:

    DELETE BUFFER     EXIT     SAVE FILE     SHOW     WRITE FILE

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