Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:47:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@ne.mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is netscape.bin.core Message-ID: <19981031194720.Q28493@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810302341230.1930-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>; from Jason C. Wells on Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 11:42:16PM -0800 References: <363A3DA8.C35E1400@ne.mediaone.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810302341230.1930-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Friday, 30 October 1998 at 23:42:16 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Stephen A. Derdau wrote: > >> What is this file netscape.bin.core that seems to fill >> up and take up major disk space ? > > Any file name *.core is the memory image of a program that crashed. It may > be safely removed. That depends. If you want to find out *why* the program^H^H^H^Hcess crashed, the key is in the .core file. Throw it away and you'll never find out. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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