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14.3 Abnormal Termination

If Ved is terminated due to an unrecoverable internal error (such as a bus error, division by zero, segmentation violation, etc.), or due to a catchable external signal (SIGQUIT, etc.) a special routine is called which attempts to save all the currently modified buffers. Each buffer is saved into a file which has the format:

VED-DEAD.bb.nn.xx

In this case ``bb'' is the current buffer id, ``nn'' is the current process id and ``xx'' is the filename for the buffer.

The files will normally be save in the current working directory. The exact behaviour when an abnormal termination occurs depends on various RC file settings. Refer to Section 19.4 for details.



2004-05-02