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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.222905.4250@darwin.ntu.edu.au>
- From: hoffmann@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:29:04 +0900
- Sender: hoffmann@nutmeg (Arthur Hoffmann)
- References: <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov12.085832.7382@ifi.unizh.ch> <1953@lysator.liu.se> <1992Nov12.142819.9665@ifi.unizh.ch>
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- Keywords: coredump, guru
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- In article <1992Nov12.142819.9665@ifi.unizh.ch>, matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes:
- > In article <1953@lysator.liu.se> marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
- > >matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes:
- > >>In article <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
- > >>>Just a question.. why don't Amigas coredump like UNIX?
- > >>Because it gives you a nice guru telling you the Why and the Where
- > >
- > >>>Why do they instead crash messily and reset?
- > >>Because its not guarantied that your data is safe.
- > >
- > >Wouldn't you like the computer to continue working and then let the user
- > >decide if he/she wants to reset?
- >
- > Thats the suspend requester. Its your choise to suspend or reset.
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- But most of the time you don't get that requester and the machine still crashes.
- And what do you do with the open windows that remain after you suspended,
- shrinking them and trying to hide them is not a good solution.
-
- Arthur.
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- Arthur Hoffmann
- hoffmann@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au
- >
- > bye
- > Matija
- > --
- > Best regards from Matija Milostinik : matija@avalon.ifi.unizh.ch
- > : matija@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
- > Therefore, use local labels in the procedures as often as possible.
- > Save the environment! Recycle! ;-) (Bjoern Reese)
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