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dump
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n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or
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the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output
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device (compare core dump ), and most especially one consisting of hex or
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octal runes describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or
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some file. In elder days , debugging was generally done by groveling over a
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dump (see grovel ); increasing use of high-level languages and interactive
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debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term dump now has a faintly
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archaic flavor. 2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large timesharing
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installations.
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