Re: Debugging full-screen programs?

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From: Dave Woerner
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 17:52

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jason@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jason Merrill) writes:

>The traditional gdb/dbx interface fails miserably if the program you are
>trying to debug wants to take over the whole screen.  How can I debug
>programs like this?

Mips's version of dbx allow you to re-direct your I/O to another
tty on the run command.  I don't know if other platforms have this
feature.

>I am using screen 3.2, but if I tell the program to use another screen tty,
>the program that was already using that tty tends to fight bloody war with
>the program I am trying to debug over control of the tty.

Have you tried putting the shell that is using the other tty to
sleep?  I find "sleep 100000" does the job nicely.

Dave

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