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From: jln@accuvax.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: what's the latest version of Macsbug?
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Date: 24 May 89 21:27:49 GMT
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I just finished playing with MacsBug 6.1b1, which was on the Phil &
Dave's Excellent CD ROM (it really is excellent, by the way).  The two
major new features in 6.1 (compared to 6.0) are scrolling and DCMDs.
Scrolling lets you use the up and down arrow keys to scroll the window
backwards and forwards.  The scrolling buffer size is configurable.  DCMDS
are external commands you can write to extend MacsBug.  6.1b1 comes with
a few nice examples to display info about drivers, volumes, open files, etc.

MacsBug v6.0 has been available for some time now, and was a major
improvement over 5.whatever.  If you use MacsBug alot I'd recommend getting
the most recent version.

The most recent APDALog contains an entry for MacsBug v.6.1 for $35, and it
says it will be "available in May 1989."  There's a 126 page manual which
would probably be useful if you want to write DCMDs.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University

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