Command: elvrec - recover from a crash Syntax: elvrec [preservedfile [newfile]] Flags: (none) Examples: elvrec prog.c # Recover prog.c elvrec prog.c savedprog.c # Recover under a new name Elvrec is used to recover an edit session after a crash. Both elvis and ex keep scratch files in /usr/tmp. After an editor crash, this information is used to reconstruct the file. If elvrec is called with no file name, it expects one of these temporary files on stdin.