[plug] how can a core file be read?

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Tamara Thompson wrote:

> I've surfed the man pages and found dbx, but still can't figure out how to use it to get more information from a core file.
> 
> I'd like to find out what caused the coredump.  Any ideas?

file core  should give you some pointers

otherwise I do "gdb -core=core"
then use where .... it will tell you the name of the app that caused the
dump and if the app was complied with debugging code then it will show you
the call trace.

Yours Tony.