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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: reexecuting a killed program
Message-ID: <1990Dec07.200016.7359@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 7 Dec 90 20:00:16 GMT
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wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu (William Sherman -Visualization) writes:

>I have two similar questions reguarding the reexecution of a program
>whose state has been saved (core file or otherwise).  The reexecution
>should start where the program left off, with all the variables and
>memory intact.

if you have the *unstripped* executable and the core file you
can use 'undump new.binary a.out.file core.file'. there is
a undump in the TeX distribution.


however i think you'll have trouble with programs using
curses etc, haven't tried, though.
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