From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 31 09:56:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24611 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:56:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA24606 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:56:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul10.u.washington.edu (root@saul10.u.washington.edu [140.142.13.73]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id JAA10316; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:56:27 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul10.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id JAA24888; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:56:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:56:06 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Greg Lehey cc: "Stephen A. Derdau" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is netscape.bin.core In-Reply-To: <19981031194720.Q28493@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >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 Yes, of course. Thank your for the additional info. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message