[comp.windows.x] Xdbx2.1 -- Does not work on DECstation 3100.

tkl@osl.csc.ncsu.edu (Tim Lowman) (07/27/90)

I have pulled the source for xdbx2.1 from expo.lcs.mit.edu and compilied it
on the DECstation 3100's we have at North Carolina State University with MIPS
CC.  This version of xdbx works worse that the previous version of xdbx.
Before when you asked for help, it meerly threw you into some bizarre
terminal mode and displayed the dbx help file with the appropriate control
characters of what looked to be a vt100 terminal.  Now however it only
results in the program crashing with an "Illegal Instruction" call.  The
files button is the same way; now it crashes consistantly instead of once
every so often.  I didn't test much farther than this since this code was
going to be used by incoming freshmen and I can't see giving them a program
that crashes in the help command.  Did anyone else experience these symptoms
or did they get this to work correctly when compiled?  Once again, the
machine this is running on is a DECstation 3100, under Ultrix 3.1d, and 
MIPS CC.  The Xserver is R4.

Tim Lowman (tkl@osl.csc.ncsu.edu)


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