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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:30:33 -0500
To: Ian Collins <ianc AT kiwiplan DOT co DOT nz>,
        "Gnu-Win32 (E-mail)" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: GDB and core files revisited again.
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In-Reply-To: <AC4D3D80B239D211BC140000F879A2BA0AECFC@NTMAIL>; from Ian Collins on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:00:34AM +1300

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:00:34AM +1300, Ian Collins wrote:
>NT4 SP4 B20.1
>
>This has come up a number of times, but with no resolution.
>
>My app is core dumping.
>
>GDB cannot read the core.
>
>How do I ascertain where it core dumped or why?

type file.exe.core

Where 'file.exe' is the name of the file that died.

The core files are just ASCII stack dumps.  This has been
mentioned countless times here.

cgf