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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