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From: rdd@wuphys.wustl.edu (Rakhal D. Dave)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Help! Power failure Recovery
Message-ID: <1991May30.040830.28055@wuphys.wustl.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 04:08:30 GMT
References: <1620@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1991May30.005139.7811@shaman.com>
Reply-To: rdd@wuphys.UUCP (Rakhal D. Dave)
Organization: Physics Dept, Washington U. in St Louis
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O Wizards and Gurus:

I was using Edit to edit a TeX file containing a section from my thesis when
the lights flickered. Anticipating a power failure I did a command s to save
the file. Within about 5 seconds after that the power failed. When
eventually I rebooted My file was there in the directory but empty. Luckily
I had the corresponding dvi file made just 10 min. before the power failure
but no TeX version. I am going to have to rewrite the TeX version now from
the printout of the dvi file. Could my lost file be recovered somehow? I
know that vi has recovery capability in such situations. Could there be a
temporary file somewhere?.

Sometime back I had requested information on the possibility of making a
Banner using the next laser printer. Is this possible? In particular will
it accept a continuous ream of paper through the manual feed. Also what
software is best to produce the banner so that characters may be split
across pages without break.

	   Look forward for input from the net

					 -Rakhal Dave