code: def dump(self):
          
          logger.warn('This function is deprecated and replaced by `dump_np_vars`.')
  
          ret = False
  
          if self.system.files.no_output:
              # return ``True`` because it did not fail
              return True
  
          if self.write_lst() and self.write_dat():
              ret = True
  
          return ret
docs: Dump the TDS results to the output `dat` file
  
          :return: succeed flag