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From: jashley@hammerhead.cs.indiana.edu (J. Michael Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT questions
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.085057.1217@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 13:50:46 GMT
References: <208@gouche.UUCP> <Lyqyy5w164w@ersys.uucp> <1991Mar20.125440.17013@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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In article <1991Mar20.125440.17013@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
>In article <Lyqyy5w164w@ersys.uucp>, ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian Smith) writes:
>> grant@gouche.UUCP (Grant Munsey) writes:
>>> 4) Is the NeXT impl of 4.3bsd fairly faithful...will I finally be
>>>    able to compile programs from the net without the SYSVizeing
>>>    them?
>> Seems to be fairly faithful - I haven't had any problems.
>> (Contradictions welcome :-) )
>
>They have *no adb*.  I don't know *what* possessed them to do away with
>it, but they did....

I was upset at first that adb is not on the NeXT, but I've since found
gdb to be a more than adquate replacement, both in terms of functionality
and friendliness.  Disclaimer: I don't try to do fancy things with either
adb or gdb; I just find out where I'm buyin' the farm.

Mike