Re: Core-file

["Fred Dunn" <fdunn ix netcom com>]

Actually, the term derives from the old memory systems of computers that
were based on ferrite cores, small doughnuts of magnetic material that were
strung on wires.


-----Original Message-----
From: jason@whizzird.net <jason@whizzird.net>
To: zeke <zeke@mail.bahnhof.se>
Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Monday, June 28, 1999 9:46 PM
Subject: RE: Core-file


>core = core dump. (probably got it's name from what reactors do when they
>meltdown).
>that's what is left behind from a program crashing. they're safe to delete.
>they contain the memory of an app as it dies.
>
>useful command for root: "find / -name core | xargs rm -i
>
>finds all core files and prompts you to delete them.
>
>On 28-Jun-99 zeke scribbled:
>> Hi!
>> I wonder about this core file that pop-up all over my system. I stumbled
>> across it in 3 folders that it hasenīt been in before, so I scaned my
>> system an found 12 core-files including 1 on my windows disk where I hade
>> some files that I used.
>> What does it do and can I delete some of them?
>> Zeke
>>
>>
>>
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