JPH02250165A - Document generating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily reproduce the greater part of document data which is being edited in the case when a service interruption occurs by bringing a data part in a task to drawback processing as a temporary file separately from a program part at the time of executing a drawback/recovery processing of a non-resident task. CONSTITUTION:On a main memory 2, a resident area 21 and a core block 22 are placed, and on a hard disk 3, a program area 31, an area 32 divided into two or more drawback blocks 321, and a file area 33 are placed. An operating system 11, a program drawback/recovery program 12, a data drawback/ recovery program 13 and a document recovery program 14 are placed in the resident area 21, and a processor 1 executes these programs. The operating system 11 executes the program drawback/recovery program 12 and the data drawback/recovery program 13, and brings the contents of the core block 22 to drawback/recovery to the drawback block 321 and a temporary file 331. In such a way, in one core block 22, plural non-resident tasks can be executed in parallel.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention is used in a document creation station such as a Japanese-language two-one processor, in particular, to create an integrated document by multi-program processing using a secondary storage device such as a hard disk. The invention relates to a device for creating .

[Prior Art] As shown in Japanese Patent Publication No. 57-9092, when performing multi-program processing, non-resident programs are saved and restored between the main memory and the secondary storage device.

In sentence-J) processing, editing is performed on a temporary copy of the original sentence 11, so that even if the user accidentally destroys the document by editing, the original document can be restored, and when the editing is completed, The user's document data has been updated! &
If there was a central power outage, the documents being edited would be lost. this is,
This is to hold temporary data in the main memory.

Therefore, we have added a function that saves the document being edited, so that it can be edited from the moment the power is restored. 13 so that it could be restarted.

[The invention aims to solve a! Title]

- Performing time saves regularly may force the user to perform non-editing tasks, which are often forgotten.

In addition, the editing program's withdrawal/recovery process is a time-consuming task, which prevents the editing process from continuing.

[Means to solve the problem]

A permanent area and a non-resident area are established in the main memory, and programs stored in the non-resident area are moved to the secondary storage!
/Recovery method provides a means for multiple programming, a save area and a file area in the secondary storage device 1-, and when saving an editing program, data being edited in the program is stored as a temporary file in the file area. When saving the editing program 11 in the Buntou'' creation device, which includes a means for pj and a means for restoring a temporary file from the file area to the main memory as editing data when restoring the editing program. , a data compression means for saving only the edited data in use within an area on the main memory, and a data decompression means for restoring the compressed data when performing recovery.

[Effect]

The data compression means saves only the data in use in the main memory when saving the editing progera 13, and restores the compressed and saved data when the data is expanded by one recovery.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram.

In the figure, 1 is a processing device ((:, :PV), 2 is a main memory that stores programs executed by the processing device and document data being edited, 3 is a bar 1-disk, which is a non-resident programmer l, 4 is a floppy disk that stores edited documents, 5 is a keyboard, 6 is a display, 7 is a floppy disk that stores edited or edited document data, etc.
is a printer.

As shown in No. 2171, the main memory 2''2 includes a resident area 2'' and a program section 221. A program area 31 in which one or more core blocks 22 divided into a data section 222 are placed, and a program area 33 in which one or more blocks are placed.
and two or more evacuation zones; Area 3 divided into 321
2, a save area 32 of the same number as the core blocks 22, and a file area 33 where the -time file 331 was created.
is placed.

Operating system All, program exit'! l/
The recovery programmer A 12 , the data save/recovery program 13 and the document recovery program 14 are placed in the resident area 21, and the processing device 1 executes these programs.

1] 1 is a file management program.

3 shows the program control data 300, FIG. 4 shows the core block control block 400, FIG. 5 shows the evacuation area control block 500, and FIG. 6 shows the task control block 600.
The above blocks are placed in main memory 2.

The operation system 11 includes a program save/recovery program 12 and a data save/recovery program 1.
3 and save the contents of the core block 22 to the evacuation section 321.
By saving/recovering to the temporary file 331, a plurality of non-resident tasks are executed in parallel within one core block 22.

An integrated document is realized as a collection of rectangular areas made up of individual element data such as text, figures, graphs, etc., and allows a variety of expressions by overlapping each area and excluding areas.

The non-resident program 3] 1 includes a document manager program that manages the overall structure of the document and a plurality of programs that edit element data such as text and graphics.

Under the operation system 1111, editing of the integrated document data is realized by the non-resident progera 1% 31.1. .

Editing of an integrated document is performed in a multi-window environment, editing of document areas and editing of data within the area is performed in separate windows, and multiple documents and areas can be edited in parallel by switching windows.

The integrated document file is composed of a document configuration data file in which document configuration data 70 is stored and a Bunze:'' area data file.The contents of the area cheater file are stored in the data section 222 of the core block, and are stored when the program is executed. −
11,l,1 file is saved as 3:31.

The structure of the document configuration data 70 is shown in FIG. Inside it, there is a document page control block 71 and a document area control block 7.
There are 2. Link pointer 72'' in block 72, area position 722. Area size 231 area attribute 724. Each field 1- of data type 725 and file name 726
There is. A link pointer 711 is included in the block 71, and in combination with a link pointer 721, a list 1- is formed in which blocks 72 representing areas within each page are arranged in the order of overlapping areas.

Editing a document is initiated by activating the operating system 1111 or document manager program.

FIG. 8 shows the flow of the document manager book 11.

FIG. 9 shows area new creation processing 1510 and area update processing 1.
511 flow is shown.

FIG. 10 shows the flow of editing end processing 1514.

Next, the system 11 program that edits the integrated document and deletes/restores programs and data is as shown in No. 3v1.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of core block control data.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of the evacuation area control block.

FIG. 6 is a configuration diagram of the task control block.

FIG. 11 shows the flow of the portion of the operating system 11 that controls task execution.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of the program save/recovery program.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart of the data evacuation/recovery program.

Next, data compression/expansion processing will be explained.

The data section 222 in FIG. 2 is as shown in FIG.
In order to arrange various tables and data, it is divided into a plurality of areas, ie, table areas, corresponding to each table and data. .

For example, the document configuration data 70 is divided into an area where the page management block 71 is placed, an area where the area management block 72 is placed, and the like.

At the beginning of the data section 222, a 1st/]1 table management table 800 is arranged, and each record stores information for managing the usage status of the corresponding table area. Maximum number of sectors 8.01 stores the maximum size of the corresponding table area, and number of used sectors 802 stores the area size used in the table area.

In addition, the total maximum number of sectors 804 includes the number of used sectors 802 of the table area placed before the table area.
The cumulative R'l value of is stored, and the cumulative maximum sector number 803 is the cumulative value a1 of the maximum sector number 801.

As shown in FIG. 15, filling up unused areas is called compression.

When compressing, N of the table area containing the data
The data transfer process may be repeated as many times as o. For expansion, do the opposite.

For expansion, do the opposite.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of data compression/expansion processing.

〔Effect of the invention〕

When performing save/recovery processing for a non-resident task, by saving the data part of the task as a -time file separately from the program part, in the case of integrated document processing, all of the data in statement 11) being edited is saved. Since it is saved as a temporary file on the hard disk, most of the document data being edited can be easily reproduced in the event of a power outage.

Therefore, overhead can be minimized and editing programs can be switched quickly.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a hardware configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention;
The figure shows the configuration of the main memory and hard disk in Figure 1, Figure 3 shows the program control data, Figure 4 shows the core block control data, Figure 5 shows the save area control block, Figure 6 shows the task control block, Figure 7 is a configuration diagram of document configuration data, Figure 8 is a flowchart of 'l') 1f manager progera t1, Figure 9 is a flowchart of an operating system program, and Figure 10 is a flowchart of a program retreat/recovery program. , Figure 11 is a flowchart of the data evacuation/recovery blockram, Figure 12 is a flowchart of the document recovery program,
Figure 33 is a flowchart of the data evacuation/recovery program, No. 14
15 is a diagram showing the sector accommodation situation in the table area in the data section 222, FIG. 15 is a sector compression diagram of the data section, and FIG. 16 is a flowchart of the memory transfer program. 1. CPU, 2. Main memory, 3 Hard disk, 4
...Floppy, 5.Keyboard, 6.Display, 7.Printer, 222 Data section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Processing device, main storage device, secondary storage device, display device,
It is equipped with a printing device and an input device, a permanent area and a non-resident area are provided in the main memory, and the secondary memory is provided with:
A means for executing multiple programs by providing a save area and a file area for non-resident programs, saving the programs stored in the non-resident area from the main memory to the secondary memory, and restoring them to the main memory again. For saving the editing program, there is a data compression method that saves only the part that is being used in the main memory area to a temporary file area, and for recovering the editing program, it restores the compressed data from the file area and restores the main memory. 1. A document creation device comprising means for restoring and decompressing on a storage device.