Re: Re: Saving intermediate results and loading them later in another session

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On 11/15/2010 9:47 AM, Rodrigo Canaan wrote:
>
>
>      Sorry, I was away on a business trip.
>
>     There is a save/restore facility (see the Jenks book, volume 0 at
>     http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/documentation.html)
>
>     You cannot interrupt a long running computation, save it, and then
>     restore it and continue. Break the computation in parts and do
>     save/restore at the parts. You could write an input file to do
>     checkpoint saves after each part completes.
>
>     Tim Daly
>
>     On 11/10/2010 1:40 PM, Rodrigo Canaan wrote:
>     > Hello!
>     >
>     > I am working on a program that takes quite a long time to
>     execute, and
>     > I wanted to be able to save the intermediate results to an
>     output and
>     > to load it later in another session, so that I wouldn't need to run
>     > the program overnight everytime. I want to run a bit, save the
>     > important variables, be able to close the session, shut down my
>     > computer and continue running later. Or if there is a way to
>     save the
>     > entire state of the session, that would work as well.
>     >
>     > The spool command won't work, because it won't print the output in a
>     > format that is readable later as an input by Axiom.
>     >
>     > If there is a way to do it, please let me know!
>     >
>     > Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Hello, Tim!
>
> What I meant by saving the intermediate results was what you said: 
> break the computation in multiple input files and save at the end of 
> them and load at the begining.
>
> I tried using the )history commands, but it isn't working. I am using 
> OpenAxiom-1.3.0 on Windows, and when I issue a command like ")history 
> )save test", axiom returns me
>
> >> System.error:
> #p"test.input" is not a type of STRING.
>
> I don't know how to fix it.
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Rodrigo Canaan
>
>
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