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Subject: Saving/Restarting a VMS process
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Date: Sat, 23-Mar-85 22:22:11 EST
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From: Todd.Kueny@CMU-CS-G.ARPA

We are interested in a way to save the image of an executing VMS process
into a file such that it can be restarted.  I have seen code from 
Franz Lisp which allows you to save the state of Franz into an
EXE file.  Several questions:

	1) Is there a right (DEC sanctioned) way to do this?

	2) The Franz code I saw had some hideous hand built C data
	structures gleened from the fiche.  Does anyone know if this
	code really works?  How NONportable is it, especially 3 -> 4?
	Does is compact empty space into demand zero space to make the
	resulting EXE file small?

	3) Pointers to relavent documentation?

						Thanks in advance,
						-Todd K.