Set Autosave Command; Managing Files - IBM Professional Series User Manual

you made before you entered SAVE will be written on disk.
But the changes you made after you entered SAVE will not
be written on disk.
SET AUTOSA VE Command
If you don't want to bother entering SAVE periodically, you
can use the SET AUTOSA VE command. You need to enter
it only once during an editing session. This command issues
a SAVE command automatically each time you've typed in
or changed a certain number of lines. You decide what the
number should be.
If you want the file saved every time you change ten lines,
your command is:
===>
set autosave
10
The SET A UTOSA VE command can be entered at any time
during an editing session. However, it's best to enter it at
the beginning of an editing session, right after you call out
the file.
If you've entered a SET AUTOSA VE command and system
operation stops while you're working on a file, your file
won't be saved under its own file label.
It
will have a new
file label. Every time the automatic save occurs, you'll see
the message AUTO SA VED AS n AUTO SA VE AI. The
part of the message that reads "n AUTOSA VE AI" is the
new label. The filename will be a number (like 1, 2, or 3)
and the filetype will be AUTOSA VE. You would now have
two files, one with the original label, and one with the
A UTOSA VE label. However, the A UTOSA VE file is the
more current one, so you want to replace the old file with it.
Managing Files
You use the editor to make changes to the contents of your
files. But sometimes you may want to make other kinds of
changes. For example, you may want to rename a file or
even discard it. Or what do you do when you forget a file
label and you want to edit that file? The commands
discussed in this section make it easy for you to manage your
files, no matter how many you have.
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