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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dbx
Date: 21 Aug 1996 18:39:32 GMT
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Bill Paul (wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu) wrote:

: If someone really wants to be my hero, they'll fix dbx so that it
: actually works on FreeBSD/i386. Gdb is incredibly nifty in its own
: right, but it would be nice to gave dbx too.

: And if you can supply me with adb, I'll be you're friend for life.

seems like you really like the old times - naming the kernel vmunix - want to
have dbx and adb and setting the sysctl variables via gdb :-)

t

--
  thomas graichen    graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de    graichen@FreeBSD.org

  perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when
      there is no longer anything to take away    antoine de saint-exupery