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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:29:16 +0800 (SGT) From: KHOO Guan Chen <khoogc@singnet.com.sg> To: Dawid Michalczyk <dmgfx@vip.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: what is core > I have many files named "core" around my system.They are > all around 2.5Mb.can I delete them.What are they? Yes you can delete them without any harm to your system. I would however try to find out what program(s) dumped core. I do 2 things :- 1. strings core | more 2. gdb -c core These plus a bit of experimenting had been enough for me to find out that netscape dump core on my system when a user starts it and why. Will strings list the password(s) if they are in the core file? I didn't see any