On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:10:46PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > What is a core dump??? and why do you get them???
> >
> Core dump is a memory dump of a crashed program. Instead of a "blue
> screen of death" like you get with Microsoft, you get a "core dump"
Now come on now... A core dump is like a Dr. Watson trace. It just saves
the memory image to disk so you can beat someone for it later.
Now, an OOPS... THAT's like a Blue Screen of Death.
> when a program fails. Also, the nice thing about Linux is that the
> PROGRAM fails, not the Operating System. :-)
Indeed!
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Steve Philp
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Advance Packaging Corporation
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