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In article <1992Sep9.221627.10717@waikato.ac.nz>, hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:
|> In article <1992Sep8.180216.3718@javelin.sim.es.com>, rpack@javelin.sim.es.com (Rick Pack) writes:
|>>   Just last week, I realized that the debugging kernal is NOT necessary, as
|>> there is a great debugger included in the c-set2 package that runs under
|>> PM and will debug PM programs.  It's called IPMD.  I STILL do not know
|>> what the purpose of the debugging kernal is, as IPMD works just fine 
without
|>> it, and there is none of this async terminal/serial port stuff.
|>>   The install documentation for workset/2 never mentions IPMD, just the 
debug
|>> kernal, which leads you to believe that it is your only option.
|>>
|> 
|> Oh yeah. Use COM2. I could never get my PC booted when trying to use COM1, 
so I
|> moved the mouse from COM2 -> COM1, and moved the debugger to COM2 (The COM1
|> option is only mentioned for the PM debugger part of the kernel debugger, so
|> not really sure if COM1 is workable at all if you have 2 COM ports).
|> 

I can corroborate that.  Even though the docs imply that you can use 
whatever com port you want by use of the /Cn flag, everyone here has
had to use n=2 to get the debugging kernel to run.

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