On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 23:48:40 +0000, James Wilkinson <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And yes, I've had People Who Should Know Better not know why "core" is a > Bad Name for a file. Personally, I wish it had been ".core". > > James. > > -- > E-mail address: james | Power corrupts, PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. > @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- Vint Cerf > Oracle and some other commercial apps use the string core in the names of many of their files plus some apps I know dump their core to an odd name <string>.core. Combine the two and cleaning up those systems is always fun.
