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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: UPS debugger on FreeBSD 2.1.x
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 05:14:12 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Chuck McCrobie wrote:
> Please forgive me, but its the only debugger outside of the non-GUI VMS
> debugger worth using.

Balls. :-)

I've looked at:

	ddd
	UPS [I did a port awhile back but never packaged it up :)]
	gdbtk

And I have to say that `ddd' is, by far, the better GUI debugger.  Among
some of its nicer features are a pegboard on which you can put
display/watchpoints and move them around to taste, pop-up display of
variables simply by moving the cursor over them, it's nice.

By comparison, UPS looks like a model-T. :-)

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.