Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekig1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!tekig1!dont From: dont@tekig1.UUCP (Don Taylor) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Re: New UNIX Commands Message-ID: <1809@tekig1.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 15:18:44 EST Article-I.D.: tekig1.1809 Posted: Sun Dec 9 15:18:44 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 02:38:00 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 16 X Existing debuggers suffer exactly the same limitations that ed(1) suffered, a teletype(tm) mentality, (no offense to Teletype Corp, but the classic approach is to use a crt to bang out a stream of characters, each soon gone, never to return, and minimizing I/O is THE criteria). The new debuggers will do what vi did for ed, you guessed it, visual debugging, or vd(1) Unfortunately, I cannot claim credit for this one, I only wish I could. Soon EVERYONE will want vd, but I want to be one of the first. Ah, to SEE a bug occur, instead of tapping around with a little white cane till you hit it. Don Taylor tektronix!tekig1!dont