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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
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