WIN.COR File (?)

Tony Alicea

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Feb 7, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/7/96

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Hi,

Every time I run a backup job on Win95 using Conner's 1.6 GB Travan
drive I get an error while VERIFYING the file WIN.COR. What is this
file? The ".COR" extension suggests "core memory" to me. A VM swap file?
If a file changes during backup of course it won't verify later... Any
ideas? What if I delete this file? It will probably be created again,
right?

Thanks,

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Steven Hoke

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Feb 8, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/8/96

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Tony Alicea wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Every time I run a backup job on Win95 using Conner's 1.6 GB Travan
> drive I get an error while VERIFYING the file WIN.COR. What is this
> file?

Do you have Corel Draw? When you install Corel Draw, it backs up system files
with a .COR extension. That would be a backup of win.ini, as it was before
you installed Corel Draw.

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Frank Feder

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Feb 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/9/96

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tal...@shadow.net (Tony Alicea) wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
> Every time I run a backup job on Win95 using Conner's 1.6 GB Travan
>drive I get an error while VERIFYING the file WIN.COR. What is this

>file? The ".COR" extension suggests "core memory" to me. A VM swap file?
>If a file changes during backup of course it won't verify later... Any
>ideas? What if I delete this file? It will probably be created again,
>right?
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Tony Alicea
>http://www.shadow.net/~talicea

I'm pretty sure it's a backup of your WIN.INI file made when you installed CorelDraw.

Frank

Don Sterner

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Feb 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/9/96

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In article <4facn0$j...@bud.shadow.net>, tal...@shadow.net says...

>
>
>Hi,
>
> Every time I run a backup job on Win95 using Conner's 1.6 GB Travan
>drive I get an error while VERIFYING the file WIN.COR. What is this
>file? The ".COR" extension suggests "core memory" to me. A VM swap file?
>If a file changes during backup of course it won't verify later... Any
>ideas? What if I delete this file? It will probably be created again,
>right?
>

My machine has win.cor and progman.cor. They appear to be copies of win.ini and
progman.ini. They don't appear to be swap files of any type.

Sally

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Feb 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/9/96

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Have you installed CorelDraw..... Corel backed up my
.ini files and renamed them with a .cor extension....

I deleted without problems... you may want to move them to
another directory, just to be on the safe side and then run for
awhile without them.

Sally

Brad P. Smith

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Feb 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/11/96

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tal...@shadow.net (Tony Alicea) wrote:

-> Every time I run a backup job on Win95 using Conner's 1.6 GB Travan
->drive I get an error while VERIFYING the file WIN.COR. What is this
->file? The ".COR" extension suggests "core memory" to me. A VM swap file?
->If a file changes during backup of course it won't verify later... Any
->ideas? What if I delete this file? It will probably be created again,
->right?

You own a Corel product, right? WIN.COR is a backup of WIN.INI created at the
time you installed the Corel stuff. You may also have a SYSTEM.COR.

If that's what they are, you can dsafely delete them. I'm puzzled as to why your
backup program would complain about it, though, since it shouldn't ever be in
use.

Brad.
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