SERRER@nrcm3.nrc.ca (Martin Serrer - Systems Manager) (08/09/89)
Brent Bates writes... > I take back all the NICE things I had to say about dbx. It barely works. >(I am TRYING to use it at the moment, thats why I remember how bad dbx is) I agree!!! and EDGE just almost glosses over the rough edges. SW tools development people at SGI, Are you listening ?? Why not just throw out dbx altogether and create something new and useful rather than just patching up what was terrible to begin with! The documentation doesn't help matters much either. Martin +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Martin Serrer - Systems Munger | | | +---+ /----\ | | Systems Laboratory, Bldg. M-3 RM.118 | |\ | | | | \ | | Division of Mechanical Engineering | | \ | | | | | | National Research Council of Canada | | \ | |---+ | | | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A-0R6 | | \ | | \ | | | serrer@syslab.nrc.ca (BITNET) | | \| | \ | / | | (613) 993-9442 (Bell) | | | | \ \----/ | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Software Rusts... Rust never Sleeps... + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") (08/09/89)
I like the THEORETICAL dbx and edge. That is if they did what the documentation said they were suppose to do, they would be fine. I have used edge on a Personal Iris and I like the way it works and it seems to work ok on the Personal, but I haven't used a Personal enough to know if everything works ok. However, the edge on the 3000's DOESN'T work. I like the way edge looks on the Personal, it sure beats putting print statments into a program and trying to debug it that way. SGI did a good job on the interface. I just wished it worked on my 3130. -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 294 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov
currier@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov (Jeffrey M. Currier) (08/12/89)
Edge works fine on my 3130. What do you mean by it dosent work: won't run, dosen't run properly? We just has an OS upgrade maybee thats the difference. _Jeff -------------------------------------------- Jeff Currier (602)621-4948 | Computational Fluid Mechanics Lab | University of Arizona, Tucson | currier@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov | alternate: jeffc@neptune.ame.arizona.edu | --------------------------------------------
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") (08/16/89)
We are at 3.6 of the OS. Edge does't work with graphics programs. It has been a while since I tried it, so I don't remember the details. I was using dbx just recently and assuming Edge has the same bugs as dbx, (reasonable assumption) there are a lot of problems with dbx (Edge). It seems like just about what ever I tried to do I got problems. One of the major ones is not being able to print out the values of variables. (with dbx). -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 294 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov