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From: jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SDB minor bugs, and 1st impressions
Message-ID: <2277@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 02:38:40 GMT
References: <23532@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday)
Organization: Ball State University UCS, Muncie, IN
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In article <23532@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>I've only had a chance to work with SDB a little bit, but have found what
>I think are a couple of (minor) bugs.  Since I can never seem to get the
>(West Coast) support BBS to answer, I'm posting them here.  Hopefully, Jim
>will see them.

Ditto here, and the East coast board has been busy the few times I have
tried it.

The bug I found is rather trivial, but it sure confused me for a while.
The last few lines in the .doc file in the demo directory tell you how
to set up your colors in the SDBOPT evironment variable.  It is wrong.

You may say that's no big deal because the manual has the correct
incantations, but if you set SDBOPT like the .doc file says sdb will
GURU the machine when you invoke it.  After a little experimentation
it appears that any typo in SDBOPT will do it.  Clean up SDBOPT and
the problem goes away.

BTW, my impression so far is that sdb is well worth the purchase price.

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