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Hi all,

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Subject: Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

> > On Nov 23 22:07, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> > >
> > > Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes.  It's called "cat".
> > >
> > > Do you think to be fun? or that a sequence of HEX characters are
> > > human-readable?
> >
> > There's nothing funny here.  The stackdump file is human-readable
> > and there's no more information.  If you want more information
> > you need a debugger and executables built with debugging information.
>
> It really is NOT funny: it's perfectly clear what Angelo was asking
> for, even though English is evidently not his first language.
> Instead of helping him, like the other 2 respondents did, Chris
> decided to mock him in public -- a terribly unfriendly and
> unprofessional thing to do, which doesn't add any respect to this
> forum.
>
> Chris should be ashamed, and you, Corinna, shouldn't try defending
> him.

Very well said.

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73,
Ged.

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