On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Jean-Louis wrote:
>> I was wondering what the files 'core' are for?
>>
>> Some are bigger than 10 MB. Can I trash them without any problem?
Trash away! When a program crashes, it dumps it's entire memory into a file
(called a core dump), so that if anyone is interested, they can figure out what
happened.
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