Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Peter, can you explain to the Amigoids (was: NeXT software size Message-ID: <1991May9.172113.2468@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <11877@uwm.edu> <3320.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 17:21:13 GMT In article <3320.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: > Quoted from by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): > > The symbol table is include with the executable(I'm pretty sure of > Gak. Surely this isn't the usual case? Yes, but it doesn't get loaded into RAM. It's very useful, particularly on UNIX where you can restart a crashed or killed program under the debugger. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .