When you edit an annotation file, WAVE makes a copy with your edits, gives it a name of the form annotator.record, and saves it in the current directory (i.e., whatever directory was current when you started WAVE). To be able to read your edited copy in a later WAVE session, be sure that the directory that contains your edited copy is listed in your DB path before any other directory that contains an older version of the same annotation file. Usually, your DB path begins with `.', a synonym for the current directory. If this is the case, simply return to the directory that contains your edited annotation file before starting WAVE each time.
If you created an annotation file without specifying an annotator name, WAVE uses its own name as the annotator name, so you should look for a file named wave.record in this case.
If the annotation file was originally created under MS-DOS, or if it is intended for use under MS-DOS, the filename is constructed in the opposite order (i.e., as record.annotator, where annotator is truncated to at most three characters). This is necessary in order to accommodate MS-DOS's restrictions on file names while still permitting flexibility in the choice of record names. Since the standard CD-ROM databases are intended to be usable under MS-DOS as well as in other environments, file names on these CD-ROMs follow this ``record name first'' convention as well.