kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) (03/02/88)
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In a recent posting, I mentioned a couple minor bugs I found in Manx's new
SDB debugger. While getting the colors setup in the various windows, I
bumped into a limitation of the ARP (v1.04) version of the "set" function.
To establish the runtime color usage for SDB, you can set an environment
variable to tell SDB how to map them into the 3 windows. For my particular
colors, this worked out to:
set "SDBOPT=-cs0,2,2,0 -cd0,3 -cc0,0,1,0"
which works just fine with the Manx supplied "set" command.
With the ARP replacement "set" however, it doesn't seem that you can pass it
any kind of "quoted string" (some kind of "quotes" are needed because of the
blanks in the string).
I haven't seen any documentation on the ARP "set" command in any version that
I have (v1.01, v1.03, v1.04), so I tried many combinations of quote types
("'`\), and positions (as above; after the "="). All were no go, and gave me
the "usage" message. In some cases, it did set SDBOPT to "-cs0,2,2,0", but
that was all.
Hopefully, a future revision of ARP's "set" will allow for quoted strings,
but for now, one needs to use the Manx version (I think).
/kim
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