On Fri, 20 Dec 1996 18:13:35 
 "Jeremy Williams" <jeremyw@usa.net> wrote:

 > Here's one for ya folks..
 > 
 > My machine crahes frequently on the core dump check, any thoughts?

....you haven't told us _how_ it crashes :-)  A message is printed..
what is it?

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