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From: frank@croton.enet.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: ultrix 4.0 dbx
Message-ID: <1875@riscy.enet.dec.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 21:10:27 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.145308.1436@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <10166@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Jan13.204300.20332@cimage.com>
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Reply-To: frank@croton.enet.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
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>  Hell, the old dbx was too. Hasn't DEC noticed yet that "help" in dbx
> fails silently (gee, what great help you have there), for example? 

Works just fine for me.  The script output below is from my DECstation
3100 running
ULTRIX 4.0 software.

						Frank

Script started on Thu Jan 17 16:03:51 1991
$ dbx
enter object file name (default is `a.out'): 
dbx version 2.0
Type 'help' for help.
reading symbolic information ...
main:   8  setpwent();
(dbx) help

MOST USED COMMANDS

quit[!]                        - quit dbx
run arg1 arg2 ... < f1 >& f2   - begin execution of the program
stop at <line>                 - suspend execution at the line
[n] cont <signal>              - continue with signal
return                         - continue until the current procedure returns
print <exp> ...                - print the value of the expressions
printf "string", exp, ...      - print expressions using format string(C)
where [n]                      - print currently active procedures
(stack trace)
status                         - print trace/stop/record's in effect
func <proc>                    - move to activation level of <proc>
<exp>[/ | ?]<count><format>    - display count number of formatted
memory items
file <file>                    - change current file to file
list <exp>:<int>               - list source lines at <exp> for <int> lines
sh <shell command>             - perform shell command


HISTORY, ALIAS, and INPUT/OUTPUT REDIRECTION

quit[!]                        - quit dbx
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