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TeX/dump
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Synopsis
\dump
Description
\dump is valid only when running INITeX, and most users of TeX will never have to use it. It essentially replaces \end when writing a format file, and tells TeX to output all previous coding in a .fmt file that TeX can quickly read in while processing a document.