Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:08:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Auto-symified traceback
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On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, George Foot wrote:

> If you call it a core file.  I thought a core file was meant to hold 
> the contents of core.

It is, but DJGPP doesn't generate a core file (more precisely, it can be 
generated, but using it for debugging is far from simple).  The traceback 
is the DJGPP equivalent of the core dump.

> : Run "symify c:/prog/file.exe" for more information.

It seemed to me that doing it instead of suggesting was a better idea.