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elvrec -- Command Recover the modified version of a file after a crash elvrec [preservedfile [newfile]] Should elvis die while you were editing a file, it automatically invokes the command elvprsv to preserve the most recent version of your edited text. elvprsv stores the preserved text in a special directory: it does not overwrite your text file The command elvrec locates the preserved version of a file, and either overwrites your text file or creates a new file, whichever you prefer. The recovered file will hold nearly all of your changes. To see a list of all recoverable files, run elvrec with no argument. preservedfile names the file into which elvprsv had saved the edited buffer. elvrec is very picky about file names: you must use exactly the same path name as you did to edit the file. newfile names the file into which elvrec writes the edited buffer. If you do not name a newfile on its command line, elvrec overwrites your original file with the preserved, edited version. Files /usr/preserve/p* The text that was preserved when elvis died. /usr/preserve/Index The names of all preserved files, and the names of the files that preserve their text. See Also commands, elvis, elvprsv Notes Due to the permissions on the directory /usr/preserve, only the superuser root can run elvrec. If you haven't set up a directory for file preservation, then you must manually run the program elvprsv instead of elvrec. If you were editing a nameless buffer when elvis died, then elvrec saves the text into a file named foo. elvrec was written by Steve Kirkendall (kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu).