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Re: Saved! Dolt-lummox newbie climbs off ledge . . . but . . .

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Mon Nov 11 07:00:47 1996

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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 11 Nov 1996 11:58:41 GMT
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In article <55r8as$15b@halon.vggas.com>, lance@iac.co.jp says...

>Now, before I can completely eliminate dark thoughts
>from my mind, can anyone tell me what's the easiest
>way to handle zip files that span floppies?  (I want to
>get them into a directory where glint can handle them.)

Zip files and Glint?  In the same sentence?  Are you sure?
If you concatenate the zip files together with cat ("man cat")
and then use unzip, that works.

>Oh, and one more dolt-lummox question:
>I created a directory called "download" in my root.
>(I know, probably not too smart, but hey, I'm a
>dolt-lummox newbie, so what can you expect?)
>Something called "core" is in there.  How did that
>happen, and can I safely nuke it?  

It's a "core dump", produced when a porogram has a 
"nasty accident".  not your fault.  To turn off this
feature, put the line 

ulimit -c 0

in your $HOME/.profile


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