Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!HWALHW5.BITNET!DEGROOT From: DEGROOT@HWALHW5.BITNET Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: RE: debugging screen management progs Message-ID: <8610252238.AA17196@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 05:36:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8610252238.AA17196 Posted: Fri Oct 24 05:36:00 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Oct-86 23:54:51 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 31 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa >Subj: Debugging screen management progs > >From: Richard Steinberger >Subject: Debugging screen management progs > >Have you ever tried to use the symbolic debugger to trap bugs.. >that make calls to the SMG$ routines? It's not all that usef.. >alas, the screen output is disturbed. What I would like to d.. >have the debugger get its I/O from a different terminal than .. >'screen mode' program is running. Does anyone know how to do.. >Are there better ways to debug 'screen mode' programs? Thank.. >help. > >Ric Steinberger >STEINBERGER@SRI-KL ------- One of the VAX/VMS manuals titled 'Utility Routines Reference Manual' (the VMS 4.3 set) contains a description of PSM Print-Symbiont Routines. Page PSM-16 tells you how to debug a user-written symbiont. The trick is to DEFINE/GROUP DBG$INPUT and DBG$OUTPUT to TTcu:. I am currently working on a modified symbiont and the trick does work. Tel. +31-8370- .KeesdeGroot (DEGROOT@HWALHW5.BITNET) o\/o THERE AINT NO (8)3557/ Agricultural University, Computer-centre [] SUCH THING AS 4030 Wageningen, the Netherlands .==. A FREE LUNCH! DISCLAIMER: My opinions are my own alone and do not represent any official position of my employer.