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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dumbed-down.html" title="dumbed down"/><link rel="next" href="dumpster-diving.html" title="dumpster diving"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dump</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dumbed-down.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dumpster-diving.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="dump"/><dt xmlns="" id="dump"><b>dump</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem
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or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available
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output device (compare <a href="../C/core-dump.html"><i class="glossterm">core dump</i></a>), and most
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especially one consisting of hex or octal <a href="../R/runes.html"><i class="glossterm">runes</i></a>
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describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file.
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In <a href="../E/elder-days.html"><i class="glossterm">elder days</i></a>, debugging was generally done by
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<span class="firstterm">groveling over</span> a dump (see
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<a href="../G/grovel.html"><i class="glossterm">grovel</i></a>); increasing use of high-level languages and
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interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term <span class="firstterm">dump</span> now has a faintly archaic flavor.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large timesharing
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installations.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dumbed-down.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dumpster-diving.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dumbed down </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dumpster diving</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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