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Subject: Re: what is a dump file?

Author: Ricardo Rego

Date: 03:19:23 12/15/00

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Is it possible to have Fritz producing his Dump File ?
Thx in advance



On December 15, 2000 at 06:05:54, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>The dump file in Shredder is the file that contains the textual output, like the
>analysis lines and all commentary that is given in the engine status window.
>The lines are "dumped" as txt-format in that file.
>
>Most of the times in computer terminology the word dump file is used in that
>way: to make output available in readable format, say if your program hicks up
>and you want to see what went wrong, which module went wrong.
>
>If you run Windows and start it up asking for the boot screen with F8, you'll
>see the possibility of the creation of a file named bootlog.txt, it's a file in
>which the startup sequence of windows is dumped in text format. Seeing it makes
>you wonder why Windows has to start 352,617,574,836 files and tasks just to
>crash in a minute all the same. Like that. Dump files.
>
>Jeroen ;-}



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