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From: orath@supernet.UUCP (Omkar Rath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Help on debugging core file!
Keywords: core, sdb, CTIX
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.172338.6799@supernet.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 90 17:23:38 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Harris Adacom Corporation
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To CTIX (Convergent Unix) Users,

	I am using CTIX on a 386 machine.  The system is a product of Convergent 
Technologies.  Here is my problem:  I have used 'sdb' to debug 'core' files 
before.  Generally, a core can be produced for a running program by pressing 
CTRL\.  This did not work and so I checked the termio file to find out that
the key sequence that does send the signal for a core dump is CTRL|.

	I did get a core dump.  When I try to invoke 'sdb' on the core I get a 
message which says:

			'core' not a core file dumped by core

Moreover on doing a 'file' command on the core file I found that it is an
English text file.  On doing a 'less' however it seemed to contain garbage
starting with a lot of @@@@@... chars.  It did not screw up my tty though.

Could somebody please solve this mystery for me? Thanks in advance.

Omkar Rath.
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