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From: jpalmucc@bbn.com (Jeff Palmucci)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Hash-table saving
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Date: 9 May 91 15:30:45 GMT
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pberck@kub.nl (Peter Berck) writes:

>How can a save a hash-table to disk? I tried the obvious
>(print *hash-table* my-stream) but this didn't work. It would just
>save "#<hash-table 0017de20>" to disk. (It contains about 10000
>entries).

In Lucid, you can (princ "(Setq *hash-table* #.*hash-table*)"
my-stream) and then (compile-file my-file). The binary version will
have an image of the hash table. With symbolics, use sys:dump-forms-to-file.

Jeff