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From: iand@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian Robert DOBSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Macintosh si programmers switch
Message-ID: <6334@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 21 Dec 90 04:43:46 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne
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I have just bought a Macintosh si computer and can't get the 
Command-PowerKey combination to activate either the on-board
debugger (is there one like on the Plus, SE, etc.) or my
version of MacsBug.  Nor will it break into the THINK C 4.02
source debugger.

I do a lot of programming, and find the key invaluable to stop
runaway programs and return to the THINK C editor.  Often I
run without the THINK source debugger, and only turn it on when
I get errors.  Unfortunately, if the computer locks up, I have
to fully reset it without some debugging "exit-to-shell"
functionality.

Is there any way I can make the programmers key do an exit-to-shell
(or enter a built-in debugger, etc.) without buying the new
version of MacsBug which supposedly enables the command-power
combination?

BTW, installing the P-Key INIT didn't seem to make any
difference.

Please send mail, thanks in advance.

Ian R. Dobson
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Melbourne, Australia
iand@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU
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