Mysteries of Microsoft Windows and C

[Clayton Cramer]

In article <390 at infmx.UUCP>, greggy at infmx.UUCP (greg yachuk) writes:
> In article <7050 at umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> kehyoe at umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Ong Keh Yoe) writes:
> You cannot use Codeview to debug a Windows program (something about
> competing for the screen was the pseudo-explanation that I got from MS).
> You must use SYMDEB, with either a second monitor, or with a terminal
> hanging from the COM1 port.  The documentation for Windows 1.04 gives
> an example of using COM2, but this hangs the system.  I don't know if
> they corrected it for 2.0x.  You MUST use COM1.

Time marches on.  The most recent issue of MSJ mentions that a special
version of CodeView is now (or soon) available to debug Windows apps.

I haven't used it, so I don't know how good a job it does.

Clayton E. Cramer