How do i view a core file

Hi
I am having some kind of error on a solaris 2.8 machine running some obscure application which is creating a core file everytime i start up the application. I want to view wats in the core file. Does anyone have an idea of how to view a core file? Thx in advance.

not really easy, if the prog is not stripped, you can use adb a
long, long way
a first step maybe: man truss

guggach is right - most production applications have been stripped.

will display the system calls for you. But if you are getting a bus error or segmentation fault you are probably using a modern shared library which has calls that don't work the way they used to work.

Try

to see what libraries it expects to find.

Try -

$ strings core | pg

will give you pages of output

NPRao

strings ???? just prints human readable strings, so in this
case, useless.
an other way to play with core is: od -c core
hahahahaha

1) you need the source code and a compiler
2) compile using the '-g' option
3) get an appropriated debugger-tool
4) learn about using it
5) run the prog in debugger, set flags, stops ....
easy!