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From: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: undump
Message-ID: <104716@convex.convex.com>
Date: 7 Aug 90 22:19:13 GMT
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Reply-To: tchrist@convex.Com (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corp, Richardson, TX
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I was wondering why perl's dump operator didn't just
write out its dataspace something like the way (I imagine) 
sendmail does to make its freeze-config file.  Let's
say it generate something like $0.out; then on startup
you could do 'perl -R /path/script.out' to restart.  
I'll give 10 to 1 odds Larry's thought this out and discounted
it, but I was wondering why.  Because it might not work on 
all possible systems?  Wouldn't that be better than making
people find an undump, and save disk space too?

--tom
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    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
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