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Subject: Re: Features of future chessprograms. - Attn: Robert Hyatt

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:53:48 11/27/98

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On November 26, 1998 at 14:32:29, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>On November 26, 1998 at 14:07:32, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>Yes!!! There are many uses for this feature,
>>  and I think there should be both a
>>     "save     program state" and a
>>     "autosave program state" command.
>
>AFAIK, standard so-called "check-pointing" software does exactly this job for
>you with *any* application that you desire running under its control. Such
>check-pointing software is surely available for free under Linux/Unix -- I
>remember having once used an according tool called "Condor" which was even
>able to check-point *distributed* applications on a network of workstations.
>
>=Ernst=

true... but I haven't seen anything that works across multiple operating
systems...  ie my standard C unbuffered I/O works everywhere.  But when it
comes to windows, atari systems, unix, vms, mvs, NT, etc...  it becomes a
serious problem to find a "standard" way to do this.



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