# ALPHA-TEST release of LambdaMOO version 1.8.0alpha1

Edward Goff (egoff@iquest.com)
Thu, 30 Nov 1995 22:12:36 PST

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    or even on that note. a way to dump a secondary copy of a differnt name
    period.. just so that the info is n't lost..

    On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Wayne Bouchard wrote:

    > > As long as folks are asking for stuff--
    >
    >
    > On that thought.. ;-)
    >
    > a problem that comes up every once in a while is some really bizzarre
    > episode leading to the removal of the directory that the MOO is
    > running in.. usually resulting in the loss of the database.. One
    > possibly usefull function might be to add an optiona argument to
    > dump_database() that would allow you to specify the name of the file
    > to open for the dump. If people are concerend about disasters, a hook
    > could very easily be added in the code to prevent that file from being
    > opened if it already exists.. forcing you to dump onto a brand new
    > file.
    >
    > This would allow the wizard to dump the database, and then shutdown
    > and restart normaly without losing information. (simply by specifying
    > an absolute path as the name of the dump file
    > eg. dump_database(/tmp/db.HELP)..)
    >
    > Anyhow, a thought..
    >
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