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In article <615@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Dave P. Schaumann writes:
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>How would you do this?  I have heard about being able to hook up a terminal
>to help debug gurus, but I've never seen any documentation on How To Do It.
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>What kind of a terminal do you need?  Any & all pointers would be appreciated!

Any kind of a terminal will work, although a vt100 or compatible terminal
might do more than a simple dumb tty.

I was speaking of using a debugger over the serial port, but I think what
you've heard of is ROM-WACK, which is a simple rom-based monitor which
operates over the serial port at 9600 baud to anything that will listen.  You
can invoke rom-wack by issuing the debug() command, or by pressing the delete
key on your terminal when your amiga starts to blink its power light before
rebooting.

Try to find the debugger I mentioned if you can.. it's quite a good one.
It's somewhere between ff350 and ff400, I _think_.  You can use newzap to
replace the reference to con: with one to aux: if you want a serial
based debugger, or if you leave it as is it will open its own window (which
should be sufficient for programs which don't take over the machine).

Be forewarned, it does keep your system from guruing (I used it for
Modula-2 development for a class I had, helped save me a lot of time),
but you might get a little lost if you haven't been exposed to
assembly.

A source level debugger would be optimal, of course.

If you can't find the debugger on ux1.cso.uiuc.edu by anonymous ftp, send
me mail and I'll try to send you the debugger.

>Dave Schaumann		| My folks went to uunet.uu.net, but all
>dave@cs.arizona.edu	| they got me was this lousy .sig...

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