JPS62254230A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain document control with high reliability by knowing whether a backup copy is obtained or not for a produced sentence and also knowing the time point of said backup copy is obtained. CONSTITUTION:In a copy processing mode a step S4 is shifted to a step S6 and a menu of the processing contents is displayed. An operator performs input of the copied document name, the copy receivers and the copy date by means of a cursor key 5A set on a keyboard 5 while looking at said processing menue. These input data are stored in each register of a RAM 15. Then the register COPYDST and COPYDATE are written to a document control table of the disk set at the copy receiver side as long as a correct copying job is carried out. The document control table stores the name, the position, the data of production, the date of the backup copy and the copy receiver of the document stored in a disk for each document.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field] The present invention relates to a document processing device, and more particularly to a document processing device with improved means for protecting the contents of created and saved documents.

[Prior Art] Document processing devices have various document editing functions and are widely used in place of conventional Japanese typewriters and the like.

Documents created by this type of document processing device are usually stored and stored on magnetic disks, magnetic tapes, or the like.

However, this type of magnetic recording medium is extremely susceptible to heat, dust, scratches, etc., and depending on storage conditions and handling methods, the stored contents may not be readable.

Therefore, when using this type of magnetic recording medium, first make a backup copy using another magnetic recording medium or the same magnetic recording medium, duplicate the same document, or copy it to another magnetic recording medium. It has become common practice to store the information in memory.

This backup copy is usually made by selecting one or more specific documents from among the documents already created on the magnetic recording medium.

However, in this case, since the operator is responsible for managing which documents are backed up and when, there is an inconvenience that documents that require backup copies may not be backed up.

The simplest way to prevent this is to copy all documents unconditionally.

If all documents are copied, all unnecessary documents will be stored, which is economically disadvantageous considering the high cost of magnetic recording media.

[Purpose] The present invention has been made in order to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional technology. 1. It is possible to know whether or not a backup copy has been made of a created document and when the copy was made. The object of the present invention is to provide a document processing device configured to perform the following functions.

[Summary of the Invention] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides means for storing whether and when a backup copy was made of a document created, and the contents stored by this storage means. A structure with a display means for displaying the information was adopted.

[Example] Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on the example shown in the drawings.

Before explaining specific examples, it should be noted that there are two methods for an operator to ensure which documents have been backed up and when they have been copied: a method in which backup copies are copied onto the same magnetic storage medium, and other methods. There is a method of copying it onto a magnetic recording medium.

In the former case, since the same document is copied onto the same magnetic recording medium, the operation is simple, but there is no way to deal with the case where the entire magnetic recording medium becomes unreadable.

In the latter case, two magnetic recording media are required, which makes the operation more complicated, but it is extremely rare for two magnetic recording media to become unreadable at the same time, so it is effective from a backup perspective. .

There are two types of backup copies as mentioned above.
Backup copies are not necessary for all documents, so document backup management can be performed efficiently by copying only the minimum necessary documents.

The present invention aims to provide a document processing apparatus configured to perform such efficient management and to avoid wasting expensive magnetic recording media.

The details will be explained below.

Figure 1 and the following diagrams explain one embodiment of the present invention.
The figure shows an example of the structure of a document processing device as a block diagram.

In FIG. 1, the reference numeral 1 indicates a microprocessor, and an address bus 2.2 for specifying addresses of each input/output memory. Bidirectional data bus used for transferring various data 3. It is connected to a control bus 4 used for accepting reads, writes, and interconnected data from each memory, or transmitting data set timing and the like.

The reference numeral 5 indicates a keyboard having various input keys, and the reference numeral 6 indicates a controller for controlling the keyboard 5. The controller 6 encodes the data input via the keyboard 5, and also encodes the data input via the keyboard 5. A signal is sent to the address bus 4.

Note that the recorded key data is temporarily stored in the key bach 6a, encoded by the controller 6 in response to access from the microprocessor (hereinafter abbreviated as NPU) 1, and read into the NPUI via the data bus 3.

On the other hand, the reference numeral 7 indicates a CRT controller, which controls the refresh memory 11 of the CRT display device 8 and its controller 12.

In addition, the display controller 9 is a character generator 1
Refresh the pattern signal from 0 to 9 invert the brightness stored in the memory it. The ampooler is processed according to display control signals such as 4 flashes and 2 flashes, and the processed output is displayed on a CRT.
It is supplied to the display device 8 to output a display pattern.

The character generator 10 sequentially outputs, among the stored character patterns, character patterns for lines specified by code inputs such as character codes and character pattern line addresses.

The refresh memory 11 stores character codes and display control codes to be displayed on the CRT display device 8.
In response to instructions from the CRT controller 7, the character code and display control code are repeatedly output.

In order to change the content displayed on the CRT display 8, it is sufficient to change the content of the refresh memory 11.

The controller 12 controls the above-described refresh cycle for CRT display and the writing and reading of data from the MPU 1 in response to instructions from the CRT controller 7.

Further, the reference numeral 13 is a ROM, which stores control procedures that will be described later with reference to FIG. 4, as well as various processing procedures such as character processing.

12 is its controller.

A RAM 15 temporarily stores various data such as created documents, and in a Japanese document processing device, for example, a dictionary for kana-kanji conversion is also located in the storage area.

Various registers to be described later are also located in the RAM 1S.

What is indicated by reference numeral 18 stores documents or dictionaries created on magnetic disks (floppy disks).

This magnetic disk 18 is rotationally driven by a drive device 19 controlled by a controller 20.

Reference numeral 21 indicates a printer, which is controlled by a controller 22 .

The document processing apparatus having the above-described structure is operated by manual input of keys from the keyboard 5.

That is, when an input is made from the keyboard 5, an interlaced signal is supplied from the keyboard controller 6 to the MPU 1 via the control path 4, and various control operations necessary for character processing are performed according to the control procedure stored in the ROM 13. Do the following.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the key arrangement of the keyboard 5.

In Fig. 2, the cursor key is indicated by 5A.
This key is used to issue instructions to move the cursor displayed on the CRT display 8.

When inputting data, the cursor is moved to the desired position using the cursor key 5A, and then input is performed using the data keys.

On the other hand, reference numeral 5B is a processing mode key, and the printer 2
Print processing using 1 is performed.

On the other hand, FIG. 3 shows the flow of processing by the document processing apparatus having the structure described above.

That is, when a key for a processing mode for document creation is entered from the keyboard 5, it is determined in step 31 which processing the instruction (command) corresponds to.

As a result, if the instruction is for processing input, the processing input routine S2
Processing then moves on to perform document input processing.

If it is a print instruction, the process goes to step S3, if it is a copy instruction, it goes to step S4, and if it is another process, it goes to step S5.

In this embodiment, since copying is the issue, only the copying process is shown, and the flow of other processes is omitted.

In the case of copy processing, the process moves from step S4 to S6, and a menu with processing details as shown in FIG. 4, for example, is displayed.

The operator inputs the copy document name, copy destination, and copy date using the cursor keys 5A of the keyboard 5 while viewing this processing menu.

This input data is stored in each register on the RAM 1S in step S7.

That is, in step S7, the register C0PYAL
is set to ``1'' if it is a copy of a single document, and ``2'' if it is a copy of all documents.
The name of the document to be copied is set in N.

Further, in the register C0PYDST, if the copy destination is the same disk, rlJ is set to "2" if it is another disk.

Further, the input copy date is set in the register C0PYDATE.

Subsequently, the process advances to step S8, and if a single document is to be copied, a copy process of one document with the document name stored in the register F I LEN is executed to an empty storage area.

Next, the process advances to step S9, and it is determined whether or not the copying process was performed normally. If abnormal, the process returns to step S8, and the copying process is performed again.

If normal, register C0PY is set in step 510.
Write DST and C0PYDATE to the document management table on the copy destination disk.

An example of the contents of this document management table is shown in FIG.

This document management table stores, for each document, the location, document name, date of creation, month and date of backup copy, copy destination, etc. of the document stored on the disk.

Further, in step 510, the contents of the register C0PYDATE are written as the backup date and the contents of the register C0PYDST are written as the backup destination.

Next, the process proceeds to step 311, where it is determined whether the copied document is a single document or all documents.

That is, it is determined whether the register C0PYAL is "1" or not, and if it is rlJ, the copying process ends and the process returns to step 31.

If the register C0PYAL is "2", copying is performed until all documents have been copied, and step S1
If the process is not completed in step S13, the name of the document to be copied next is set in the register FILEN, and the process returns to step S8.

If all copies have been completed, the process returns to step 51.

The copy process is performed as described above, and FIG. 6 shows an example of a case where a document list is displayed on the CR7 screen after the copy process is performed.

As shown in FIG. 6, if a date is displayed in the backup date field, it indicates that a backup copy has been made to another disk, and if "r copies" is displayed, it indicates that no backup copy has been made.

Furthermore, if the date of the backup copy is underlined, this indicates that the backup copy was made on the same disk.

In the example in Figure 6, the 6th document name “Greetings” is 3.
It turns out that this is a backup copy of the second "greeting".

[Effect] As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, backup management operations are greatly simplified by storing the date on which a backup copy was made and information on the backup destination, and displaying the information on the screen. It becomes easier.

Furthermore, highly reliable document management can be performed even in the event of an accidental failure of the magnetic recording medium of the created document, and furthermore, it is possible to prevent mistakes such as forgetting to make a backup copy.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figures are for explaining one embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is a block diagram of the control circuit, Fig. 2 is a plan view of the keyboard, and Fig. 3 is a block diagram of the control circuit.
Figure 4 is a flowchart explaining the processing method, Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the copy menu, Figure 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the document management table, and Figure 6 is a diagram showing the document catalog on the screen. It is an explanatory view showing an example. 1... Microprocessor 5... Keyboard 7.
・・CRT controller 8・CRTlo・Character generator 13・ROM 15・RAM18・
...Magnetic disk 21...Printer Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1) A document processing device capable of inputting and storing documents,
A document processing device comprising means for recording information regarding backup copies of each document. 2) The document processing device according to claim 1, wherein the information regarding the backup copy includes a backup date and a backup destination. 3) The document processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising display means that can display the name of a document for which a backup copy has been taken, differently from other document names.