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According to Angelo Graziosi on 11/23/2006 2:07 PM:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>> Yes.  It's called "cat".
> 
> Do you think to be fun? or that a sequence of HEX characters are
> human-readable?

*.stackdump is certainly more human-readable than a binary core file;
nevermind that both file formats require additional knowledge for proper
interpretation of what it is telling you.  If you are asking for what a
debugger can read, vs. what a human can read, then other mails in this
thread (about /bin/dumper) are more relevant.  But as far as I know,
cygwin is the only platform that produces a text (instead of a binary)
output file when a program crashes, in its default configuration.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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