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  2. From: ej@id.dth.dk (Erik Johansen)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
  5. Message-ID: <ej.721669711@id.dth.dk>
  6. Date: 13 Nov 92 15:48:31 GMT
  7. References: <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
  8. Organization: Department of Computer Science
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  11. shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
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  14. >Just a question.. why don't Amigas coredump like UNIX?  Why do they
  15. >instead crash messily and reset?  Basically, I'm asking.. what allows a
  16. >UNIX to coredump, and relativeily, what does Amiga LACK that won't let
  17. >it coredump w/o crashing?
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  19. Core dump is not a good idea either, the core files always take up a lot of
  20. good file space.  I like the possibility of KickStart2.0 to suspend a
  21. crashed process.
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  23. -- 
  24. Erik Johansen / Institute for Computer Science / Danish Technical University
  25. ej@id.dth.dk
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