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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: trades
Message-ID: <1951@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 01:44:07 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.1951
Posted: Mon Jan 26 01:44:07 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Jan-87 02:09:30 EST
References: <376@oblio.UUCP> <1987Jan14.123035.20364@sq.uucp> <248@houxa.UUCP> <5152@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.bugs.sys5
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UNIX, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <5152@mimsy.UUCP> by chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek):
+---------------
| In article <248@houxa.UUCP> grs@houxa.UUCP (G.SILLS) writes:
| >>  3)	adb is missing
| 
| >	You get sdb instead.  A very good trade.
| 
| I do not think so.  Adb is a very handy tool: sort of the Unix
| version of the Swiss Army Knife.  For source code level debugging,
| sdb is certainly preferable, but adb can do more.  (Sometimes I
| think adb can do anything. :-) )
+---------------

Actually, it's not as much a loss as you think; the sys5 version of adb
won't work on non-COFF files.  No more patching of data files or damaged
superblocks, etc.  (BOO, HISS!)

++Brandon
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