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excerpt: "In the last Newsletter I mentioned how Al Boehm happened to call me right after I had locked-up QUILL while \"up scrolling\". He kindly gave me a short SuperBasic program which helped me to recover the text of the _doc that I was sure I had lost. His program allowed me to look through the…"
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# To Crash, But Not to Burn – Maybe

In the last Newsletter I mentioned how Al Boehm happened to call me right after I had locked-up QUILL while “up scrolling”. He kindly gave me a short SuperBasic program which helped me to recover the text of the _doc that I was sure I had lost. His program allowed me to look through the QL RAM until I located the work area QUILL had used to construct the document and then to transfer the text safely to a File. Here, then, is the rest of the story (and the program).