.BG
.FN dump
.TL
Produce Text Representations of S Objects
.CS
dump(list, fileout="dumpdata")
.AG list
character vector giving the names of data objects.
.AG fileout
character name of a file on which the objects will be dumped.
.RT
`fileout' is returned.
.PP
Currently, `dump' uses `sink' to direct its output to `fileout'.
This means that any `sink' currently in effect will be lost.
.SE
Text representations of the objects given in `list'
are written to file `fileout'.
The files are
.Sc ASCII
text,
and can be shipped to another machine.
The shipped file can then be used to restore the objects, either with
`source' for small files, or with `restore'.
.SA
`dput', `restore'.
.EX
dump(ls(), "all.files")
.KW data
.WR
