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in thread Another Lesson Learned (but needs clarification.)

Your core file is simply an image of your computer's memory when the crash happened. You can delete it or look at it using the strings command.

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Re: Core Files Are Images Of Memory - Re: Re: Re: Another Lesson Learned (but needs clarification.)
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Feb 12, 2002 at 10:52 UTC

    ...or look at it using the strings command.

    Or even more fun you can examine it using gdb or whatever debugger you have to hand. You might even find out what cause it to crash like that ;-}

    /J\