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[allbery at ncoast.UUCP]

As quoted from <5152 at mimsy.UUCP> by chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek):
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| In article <248 at houxa.UUCP> grs at houxa.UUCP (G.SILLS) writes:
| >>  3)	adb is missing
| 
| >	You get sdb instead.  A very good trade.
| 
| I do not think so.  Adb is a very handy tool: sort of the Unix
| version of the Swiss Army Knife.  For source code level debugging,
| sdb is certainly preferable, but adb can do more.  (Sometimes I
| think adb can do anything. :-) )
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Actually, it's not as much a loss as you think; the sys5 version of adb
won't work on non-COFF files.  No more patching of data files or damaged
superblocks, etc.  (BOO, HISS!)

++Brandon
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