This file contains statistics arrays from a previous job. It is not required if the current job is not a continuation of a previous run (ie. if the restart directive is not present in the CONTROL file - see above). The file is unformatted and therefore not readable by normal people. DL_POLY_2 normally produces the file REVIVE (see section 4.2.4) at the end of a job which contains the statistics data. REVIVE should be copied to REVOLD before a continuation run commences. This may be done by the copy macro supplied in the execute sub-directory of DL_POLY_2 .