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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: assertions and debuggers
Keywords: assert,dbx
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.161939.11375@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 26 Sep 90 16:19:39 GMT
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Organization: Scuzzy Research Center (SRC)
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rhl@grendel.Princeton.EDU (Robert Lupton (the Good)) writes:

>(I haven't used VMS for about 3 years, but this used to be true anyway...)
[...]
>The functionality is similar (except that you can't attempt to clean up
>and continue). 

apart from the little difference that you can easily debug spawned 
programs (if cc -g'ed) because the debugger (or part of?) is linked into
the executable. i saw this on DEC windows or what its called - really neat!
lotsa debugger windows popping up and vanishing. try this with sdb.
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