Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!nrcm3.nrc.ca!SERRER From: SERRER@nrcm3.nrc.ca (Martin Serrer - Systems Manager) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: RE: dbx problems Message-ID: <89Aug8.151314edt.57347@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Date: 8 Aug 89 20:02:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Brent Bates writes... > I take back all the NICE things I had to say about dbx. It barely works. >(I am TRYING to use it at the moment, thats why I remember how bad dbx is) I agree!!! and EDGE just almost glosses over the rough edges. SW tools development people at SGI, Are you listening ?? Why not just throw out dbx altogether and create something new and useful rather than just patching up what was terrible to begin with! The documentation doesn't help matters much either. Martin +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Martin Serrer - Systems Munger | | | +---+ /----\ | | Systems Laboratory, Bldg. M-3 RM.118 | |\ | | | | \ | | Division of Mechanical Engineering | | \ | | | | | | National Research Council of Canada | | \ | |---+ | | | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A-0R6 | | \ | | \ | | | serrer@syslab.nrc.ca (BITNET) | | \| | \ | / | | (613) 993-9442 (Bell) | | | | \ \----/ | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Software Rusts... Rust never Sleeps... + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+