diff -urN vbestate-0.1/vbestate.c vbestate-0.1-s3/vbestate.c
--- vbestate-0.1/vbestate.c	2004-12-09 00:42:51.000000000 +0100
+++ vbestate-0.1-s3/vbestate.c	2004-12-21 01:37:06.132044112 +0100
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@
 		short tmpbuffer[524288];
 		size_t i,length=0;
 		
+		/* The loop below doesn't make any sense unless we think our
+		input data contains length/sizeof(tmpbuffer)*sizeof(tmpbuffer)
+		bytes of leading garbage */
 		while (i=read(0, tmpbuffer, sizeof(tmpbuffer))) {
 			length+=i;
 		}
@@ -127,6 +130,12 @@
 		memcpy(data,tmpbuffer,length);
 
 		restore_state(data);
+		text_mode();
+
+		data = LRMI_alloc_real(length);
+		memcpy(data,tmpbuffer,length);
+
+		restore_state(data);
 	} else {
 		fprintf(stderr,"%s: Usage %s [save|restore]\n",
 			argv[0],argv[0]);