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From: patrice.allais@octel.com (Patrice Allais)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: How to debug C programs
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:46:34 GMT
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ian@idk.com (Ian Kettleborough) wrote:

>C is not new to me, have used it for years in a PC (DOS) 
>envirmonent. There are great debuggers there when things don't go 
>quite right. How and what does one use on BSDI to debug a C program 
>other than a lot of printf's!!

In case you have dbx on your system, you may find it usefull.

Hope this helps,
Patrice.
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