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From: nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Suggestion on 'undump'
Message-ID: <268ACCD5.28062@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 90 03:36:53 GMT
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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

>One possible solution if you can't find an undump is to see whether
>you've got GNU emacs on your system and if so, use its unexec routine
>instead.  It's make an a.out instead of a core file.  This is what I did
>for the CONVEX architecture, which will be shipped with the standard
>CONVEX utilities in the next release of the O/S, due out to the general
>(non-beta) public sometime towards the end of the year.

Since GNU Emacs runs on a whole lot of systems, perhaps support for
this should be added to perl?  I for one have no working version of
undump for any of Sun3/Sun4 OS 4.03 or Sequent Symmetry Dynix
3.0.12.  But emacs runs on all of them.  It sure would be nice to be
able to use this feature.  And now that perl is under the GPL, an
option requiring a piece of GNU Emacs shouldn't be that big of a
deal.  In the absense of that, perhaps you could post your mods, Tom?

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