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From: mikeo@sae.UUCP (Michael Ovington)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How do you use an Xterm with a debugger
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Date: 14 Mar 91 14:05:17 GMT
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In article <1991Mar13.220110.21768@motcad.portal.com> jtc@motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin) writes:
>In article <1991Mar13.011536.17184@motcad.portal.com> jtc@motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin) writes:
>>I would like to be able to open an Xterm so I can redirect terminal output
>>to it from within gdb.  This would allow me to debug tty based programs
>>from my workstation without me having to connect an ascii terminal to a 
>>serial port.  Can this be done?
>
>Sorry to followup my own posting, but my query was missing the fact that I
>also need to redirect terminal _Input_ from the "debugging window"  The 
>problem I am having stems from the fact that the shell in the xterm competes
>with my program for terminal input.
>
>    --jtc
>
>-- 
>J.T. Conklin    jtc@motcad.portal.com, ...!portal!motcad!jtc

In the xterm that actually runs the aplication, do a sleep 100000 on the
command line to stop it from processing input.
Then in your debugging window run you application and redirect input from
the other xterm and ouput to it.
On a sun running dbx the command would look something like:
(dbx) run </dev/ttyp7 >/dev/ttyp7
different debuggers will certainly have different syntax, but should support
something like this.
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