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dump

To print the contents of memory, disk or tape without any report formatting. See memory dump.

dump1
1. a place or area where waste materials are dumped
2. Slang chiefly US an act of defecation
dump2
Obsolete a mournful song; lament
(operating system)dump - 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare core dump), and most especially one consisting of hexadecimal or octal runes describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file. In elder days, debugging was generally done by "groveling over" a dump (see grovel); increasing use of high-level languages and interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term "dump" now has a faintly archaic flavour.

2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large time-sharing installations.

Unix manual page: dump(1).
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