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Date:      Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:56:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@ne.mediaone.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what is netscape.bin.core
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810310955250.418-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981031194720.Q28493@freebie.lemis.com>

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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/


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