Subject: RESTORE function -- what's it supposed to do??
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:05:40 -0800
There is no restore function in commercial macsyma.
It seems that the purpose is to make all
the values "autoload" on need. This would save
main memory. I suspect it never really worked.
Load doesn't do this autoloading business.
RJf
Robert Dodier wrote:
> Fellow Maximists,
>
> The available documentation for RESTORE says:
>
> - Function: RESTORE (file-specification)
> reinitializes all quantities filed away by a use of the SAVE or
> STORE functions, in a prior MACSYMA session, from the file given
> ....