NAME

expreserve − Used by ex/vi to save edits during crashes

SYNOPSIS

expreserve [arg]
 

DESCRIPTION

When a vi or ex editing session is interrupted by a crash of the program or the system, expreserve is invoked to save the edits that were in progress, so that they can be recovered by invoking vi −r or ex −r later on.  If expreserve is invoked with no arguments, then it preserves the information that it reads from standard input.  If any arg is specified, it preserves all of the edits recorded in files in /tmp.  For more information than this, read the expreserve and/or ex code. 

This program should not normally be invoked directly by users;  it is run automatically by the system. 
 

KEYWORDS

crash, editor, recover

Sprite version 1.0  —  January 18, 1989