Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!nic.csu.net!csus.edu!cube05!swansond From: swansond@cube05.csus.edu (Dennis Swanson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Using the Programmer's Switch Keywords: crash 'n restart Message-ID: <1990Dec18.164136.14761@csus.edu> Date: 18 Dec 90 16:41:36 GMT References: <1053@sppy00.UUCP> <1990Dec18.052752.8420@cs.umn.edu> Sender: usenet@csus.edu (USENET News System) Organization: California State University, Sacramento Lines: 43 Nntp-Posting-Host: cube05.ccs.csus.edu In article <1990Dec18.052752.8420@cs.umn.edu> aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson) writes: >glf@sppy00.UUCP (Hill) writes about the programmer's switch: >>I know that pushing it gets me the window with a > in the upper left >>corner and I know that there's SOMETHING I can type there to make the >>finder or some other application active, but I don't know what that >>something is. > >>I don't have any debuggers or any such toys, so if it isn't built in, >>I can't use it (unless I can ftp it). Anyone have a list of things I >>can do from this window? > >I'd like to see a list too, but for now I can add this (which I just >found today): > SM 0 A9F4 > G 0 >Which is supposed to get you back to the app so that you can save before >restarting. > > >Sometimes I can get back to the finder with just: > G > >A9F4 is a trap, and G 0 means start executing at memory location 0, I believe. > >If you have an SE, try: > G 41D89A > > >Brian >-- >.signature: No such file or directory The only other one I know of is G FINDER. I think just plain G will take you back to the app. I'd also like to see a list of handy/fun things to type into this window, and/or the subset of macsbug commands the built-in supports. Any- one out there in the know? Den | Dennis M. Swanson | INTERNET: swansond@csus.edu | | Computer Science Student | UUCP: ...!uunet!csus.edu!swansond | | Macintosh Lab Assistant | University Computing and Communications Services | | "Harness the Macpower!" | California State University, Sacramento |