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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Is there a way to do large block of source code comments
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 17:35:04 +0100
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Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not sure how much the term "core" is used now, but it was
> certainly used well past the time when ferrite cores all but
> disappeared.

My Macbook (running Mavericks, the latest production version) has a
directory /cores for core files (which is empty at the moment, probably
because ulimit -c is still at the default (0)).