JPH06266724A - Document editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To edite a document with high efficiency and to improve the operation convenience of a document editing device by editing simultaneously a single document by plural document editing devices. CONSTITUTION:A document editing device consists of an input device 2 which inputs a desired character or symbol, a display device 3 which shows the input and editing results, an output means which outputs the input and editing result, an external storage 5 which stores the editing result and the data, and an interface device 6 which attains the simultaneous editing operations of other document editing devices. When the simultaneous document editing operations are carried out by plural document editing devices, a simultaneous editing mode is selected. Thus the data are transferred via the device 6. At this time, one of both document editing devices is defined as a main device with the other one defined as an auxiliary device respectively in the mode setting state. Thus the document editing efficiency is improved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing device such as a Japanese word processor having functions such as input, display and printing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a Japanese word processor, a floppy disk has been used as a data medium for editing one document by a plurality of document editing devices. In that case, it is necessary to combine documents edited by a plurality of document editing devices into one document.

[0003]

Conventionally, when a single document is created by a plurality of document editing devices, each created document is stored in a floppy disk, and a plurality of documents are collected later or a single document is created. A possible method is to save each document on a floppy disk. The former has a problem that many floppy disks are required, and the latter is not efficient because it takes time to organize and organize documents on floppy disks.

An object of the present invention is to edit a document at the same time by a plurality of document editing devices, thereby efficiently editing the document and improving usability.

[0005]

In order to achieve the object, according to the present invention, when a plurality of document editing devices are connected, data is written from one document editing device to a memory area for document editing of another document editing device. It has a mode to read and write.

[0006]

In the present invention, one document can be simultaneously edited by a plurality of document editing devices, so that the document can be efficiently edited and the usability is improved.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a document editing apparatus of the present invention. The document editing device of the present invention is an input device for inputting desired characters and symbols, a display device for displaying input and edit results, an output device for outputting input and edit results, and an external storage for storing and saving edit results and data. It is composed of a device and an interface device for simultaneous editing with another document editing device. When simultaneously editing a document with a plurality of document editing devices, data is transferred via the interface device by selecting a mode in which the plurality of document editing devices perform editing. At this time, one of the document editing devices is used as a main device and the other document editing device is used as an auxiliary device. This is also set when the mode is set.

Two document editing devices 2 as shown in FIG.
In order to edit one document by 1 and 2, reading and writing is performed from the auxiliary document editing device 22 to the memory 24 of the main document editing device 21 via the interface device. When writing data to the memory 24 from 22 to 21,
First, the data is written in the memory 28 of 22, and then the data is written in the memory 24 of 21. When 21 is reading / writing from / into the memory 24 of 21, writing of 22 is performed after the writing process of 21 is completed. When reading data in the memory 24 from 22 to 21, the data read from 21 is written in the memory 28 from 22. At this time, if the data is being read at 21, the reading process of 21 is completed and then the reading of 22 is performed.

Next, when one document is simultaneously edited by the three document editing devices, as shown in FIG. 3, the three document editing devices are 31, 32, 33, for example, 31 is the main 32, The process described in FIG. 2 is performed with 33 as an aid.
At this time, the other document editing devices 32 and 33 are connected to the main document editing device 31.

The document editing apparatus of the present invention includes a floppy drive device as an external storage device for storing the edited result. When a plurality of document editing devices simultaneously edit a document, the plurality of document editing devices can store and retrieve data in one floppy drive device. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the control unit of the floppy drive device. When the 22 document editing devices read and write the floppy data of the main document editing device 21, the following processing is performed. First, when performing the writing process, if the control unit 21 does not perform the reading and writing process to the floppy drive device 42,
Data is written to the floppy via the interface circuits 27 and 25. When reading the data from the floppy, the data of the floppy is read into the memory 28 when the control unit 21 does not read or write the floppy drive device 42.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to edit one document by a plurality of document editing devices, thereby improving the usability in efficiently editing the document.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document editing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing memory control when two document editing apparatuses of the present invention are connected.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing memory control when three document editing apparatuses of the present invention are connected.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a control unit of a floppy drive device of the document editing apparatus of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Document editing device, 2 ... Input device, 3 ... Display device, 6 ...
Interface device.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document editing apparatus having at least an input device for inputting desired characters and a display device for displaying input and editing results, wherein a plurality of document editing devices can mutually transfer data. The document editing device, wherein the same document can be simultaneously edited by the document editing device. 2. The document editing device according to claim 1, wherein the document editing device has an external storage device such as a floppy drive device for storing editing results and image data, and the plurality of document editing devices have the same external device. A document editing device capable of storing and retrieving an edited document in a storage device.