windowing debugger

Larry Williamson larry at focsys.uucp
Thu Jun 7 11:20:08 AEST 1990


In article <393 at psitech.UUCP> Bob Posert writes:

   I'm looking for a windowing source level debugger for Dell(ISC) Unix
   on the i386, based on the X window system; something like turbo C's
   integrated debugger or sun's dbxtool.

   So far, I've been able to locate dbXtra from HCR Corporation, but
   they won't send out evaluation copies.  (I can BUY a DEMO. Hmph!)
   Does anyone have any experience with this?

I am a little surprised that they charge money for a demo too.

But, I can say first hand that this is *one very good debugger*. We
were one of their beta testers. Our version was not X based, just
plain ol' terminals.

I've seen a copy of their X based verion at a recent trade show. It
looked as slick as all the other X based packages you can buy now.

For my money I would not even begin to look at another debugger.
Especially one that I had to port.

This 'DBXtra' is extremely easy to use. Very, very flexible, since you
can define all kinds of nice keyboard macros. It's command line
editing is based on emacs.

If you've ever used Microsoft's code view, you would sense a bit of
deja vu. It has a vaguely familiar feel to it.

What do I get out of this plug? Nothing. Actually I am a little miffed
at HCR since they sold out to SCO. Now our local ISC dealer (and
support centre) is gone. To be fair, they say they will continue to
support 386/ix customers, but to be just as fair, one has to wonder
how much support you get now that they no longer provide 386/ix
upgrades.

Buy the demo, or scream at them loud enough to send you one for free.
In any case, do evaluate it.

-larry



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