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From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tahoe
Subject: Re: undumping a core image
Summary: try unexec.c in GNU Emacs
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Date: 17 Aug 89 00:35:14 GMT
References:  <8908161740.AA05361@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Reply-To: tower@bu-it.bu.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
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In article <8908161740.AA05361@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> doug@CSD4.CSD.UWM.EDU (Doug Tiarks) writes:
|
|wills ms 01309 writes:
| > "undump" exists which will do such a thing from a core file.  My
| > questions are these:
| > 
| > Is there an FTP site where I can find such an animal?
| > 
| > Can it reliably resume a process from any core file?
| > 
| > How dependent is it on platform type?  I'm using a tahoe running

Have a look at src/unexec.c in the GNU Emacs distribution.  See
etc/MACHINES and the installation instructions for configuration info.
Minor hacking probably needed.  Note that the GNU General Public
License will apply if you use this code.  See etc/COPYING.

enjoy -len