Valdocs 2 Editor File Blocking and Store Recovery

          This technical information is provided by Epson Systems Product
          Support Group.  While it should prove useful to you we cannot
          guarantee that it will hold true in every instance.

          This is the second solution to assist you in recovering from an
          Editor error.  The steps outlined here assume that you can get to
          the beginning of the document (CTRL-W) and the end of the
          document (CTRL-Z) without any difficulty.  If you cannot do so,
          follow the instructions in the paper titled "Valdocs 2 Editor
          File Merge Recovery".

          Whenever you are instructed to enter CTRL-B (or CTRL- and any
          other letter) you only need to hold down the CTRL key and type
          that letter along with it.


          Recovery using the Block menu store

          1.   Enter CTRL-W.

          2.   Enter CTRL-B and select <M>ark block.

          3.   Enter CTRL-Z.

          4.   Again enter CTRL-B and select <M>ark block.

          5.   Enter CTRL-B once more and select <S>tore block as a
               document to disk.

          6.   Select <I>ndexed document, give the document an appropriate
               name, and press STORE.

          7.   Now that the blocked document has been stored you can clear
               the screen with CTRL-M E T, if you like.

          If the Valdocs 2 Editor encounters an error while trying to block
          the whole document, you will not be able to store it.  You may
          choose to mark a block around the good segments of text that are
          before and after the error and store each separately.  Of course,
          any text that cannot be put into a block and stored will have to
          be re-entered, but that should be a minimal amount of work.  You
          may even be able to get a screen dump of any text that cannot be
          blocked and stored, so that you will have a hard copy of the text
          that needs to be entered.  After successfully storing the block
          segments, you can then clear the Editor screen with CTRL-M E T
          and follow this simple procedure to recreate the document through
          merging.

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           Recovery by merging Block-stored segments
          1.   If the very beginning of the document was not blocked and/or
               stored then enter that text now.  When you're finished enter
               CTRL-Z.

          2.   Press INDEX and select the option <S>elect document to Edit.

          3.   Move the cursor to the document which is the first segment
               and press RETURN to select it.

          4.   After that segment has been retrieved go to the end of the
               document by entering CTRL-Z.

          5.   If the next section of text could not be blocked and stored,
               then enter it now.  When finished enter CTRL-Z.

          6.   Press INDEX and select the option <S>elect document to Edit.

          7.   Move the cursor to the document which is the next segment
               and press RETURN to select it.

          8.   Repeat steps 4 through 7 as is necessary to merge in each
               new segment to the end of the existing document.































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