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<div><h1>loaddata -- load state of the system from a file</h1>
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<div><tt>loaddata s</tt> -- load all data segments for the current process from the file whose name is stored in the string <tt>s</tt>. The file must have been created with <a href="_dumpdata.html" title="dump state of the system to a file">dumpdata</a> and the same version of Macaulay2.<p/>
The file should have been created with <a href="_dumpdata.html" title="dump state of the system to a file">dumpdata</a>. Everything will be returned to its former state except:<ul><li><span><a href="_environment.html" title="the environment variables">environment</a> -- the environment variables</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_command__Line.html" title="the command line arguments">commandLine</a> -- the command line arguments</span></li>
<li>whether the standard input is echoed and prompts to the standard output are properly flushed, which depends on whether the standard input is a terminal.</li>
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