Recovery of lost Scripsit files.

This is intended as a guide to saving the text of a file after a reset while    writing a Scripsit document.

There are two basic cases.   One where part or all of the document is on disk   and part in memory, and the other where it is all in memory.

Scripsit stores text on disk after about three or four pages, or after pressing CTRL W.   This means that the average letter is entirely in memory.

This is the simple case.   The document is normally in memory after a reset, andthe first step is to secure it by dumping the memory to a disk file.

The first part of SAVEMEM does this.   It dumps the memory from the start of thebuffer at A5C0H to F3FFH to a disk file with the extension /MEM.   This file canbe read with list, and TED/CMD will also load it, but it is of considerable     length and much of it is rubbish.

The second part of the program therefore, recovers the text from the file and   filters out a lot of the rubbish, and refiles it in a file called RECOVER/ASC.  There will still be some rubbish left which will have to be edited out.

This file can now be converted into a Scripsit document by using the command A  from the Scripsit menu.

Note that RECOVER/ASC may not be closed in a manner that Scripsit likes.   If   you get the error message 'File not open', exit from Scripsit, call TED, load itinto TED by using CTRL L, and immediately refile it under the same name with    CTRL F.   Now try Scripsit again, when all should be well.

Recovery of files from disk can often be done with David Goben's program.

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