Hybernation and running applications

[Ioannis Vranos]

Gareth Howells wrote:
>> I am running a compression program. If I choose hibernate at log out,
>> when the system will resume tomorrow, will this compression continue
>> from where it was left?
> 
> That would depend on the program (which software are you using?) but I would 
> expect not. Have you looked at the software documentation to see if it can 
> handle hibernation?

OS: Ubuntu 7.10 x86.

I am using p7zip-full package (a port of 7-zip) and am compressing in a
terminal window.

At hibernation doesn't the system write a snapshot of the system RAM to
disk?