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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>core dump</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="core-cancer.html" title="core cancer"/><link rel="next" href="core-leak.html" title="core leak"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">core dump</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="core-cancer.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="core-leak.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="core-dump"/><dt xmlns="" id="core-dump"><b>core dump</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common <a href="../I/Iron-Age.html"><i class="glossterm">Iron Age</i></a> jargon, preserved by Unix]
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</p></dd><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] A copy of the contents of
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<a href="core.html"><i class="glossterm">core</i></a>, produced when a process is aborted by certain
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kinds of internal error.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, used for humans passing out, vomiting, or
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registering extreme shock. “<span class="quote">He dumped core. All over the floor.
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What a mess.</span>” “<span class="quote">He heard about X and dumped
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core.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Occasionally used for a human rambling on pointlessly at great
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length; esp. in apology: “<span class="quote">Sorry, I dumped core on you</span>”.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 4. A recapitulation of knowledge (compare
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<a href="../B/bits.html"><i class="glossterm">bits</i></a>, sense 1). Hence, spewing all one knows about
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a topic (syn. <a href="../B/brain-dump.html"><i class="glossterm">brain dump</i></a>), esp. in a lecture or
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answer to an exam question. “<span class="quote">Short, concise answers are better than
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core dumps</span>” (from the instructions to an exam at Columbia). See
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<a href="core.html"><i class="glossterm">core</i></a>.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly76-07-18"/><img src="../graphics/76-07-18.png"/><div class="caption"><p>A <a href="core-dump.html"><i class="glossterm">core dump</i></a> lands our hero in hot
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water.</p><p>(This is the last cartoon in the Crunchly saga. The previous
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cartoon was <a href="../S/Stone-Age.html#crunchly76-05-01">76-05-01</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="core-cancer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="core-leak.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">core cancer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> core leak</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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