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From: mckay@umich.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: dbx
Message-ID: <160@umich.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 17:19:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  5 17:19:19 1985
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<<<FLAME ON>>>

What !(#&^$% foisted this piece of trash on us? We just converted
several machines from 4.1bsd to 4.2bsd. Everything is fine
except for this *&(^% debugger! The manual says it interprets
core dumps. Does it? NOOOO! Start dbx up and it says "ignoring
core file", or some such thing. Use it on a program of any
size and it bombs miserably. And is sdb still around? Fat chance.
Why don't people thoroughly debug a piece of software BEFORE
distribution instead of after? Dbx probably would be a nice
debugger IF it worked, but it doesn't.

<<<FLAME OFF>>>

Ahhh, that felt good.