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- From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
- Subject: Re: dbx headache
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.113519.22620@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1993Jan22.171934.15193@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:35:19 GMT
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- From article <1993Jan22.171934.15193@midway.uchicago.edu>, by jfu2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Carlo Graziani):
-
- [ tales of woe deleted]
-
- > I'm no expert on the subject, but I suspect that the problem has to do
- > with the fact that dbx was not designed as a fortran debugger, and that
- > it was "fortranized" by a series of awkward patches. Unfortunately, I
- > am aware of no alternative available for Unix workstations. I feel that
- > this is a serious limitation in the developement environment offered by
- > vendors of fortran packages for unix.
- >
- > I can't say I miss working on a VAX, but I sure do miss the VAX fortran
- > environment.
-
- You have made an unwarranted generalization here. Unix != BSD :-)
- The AT&T equivalent is sdb, and is much neater than dbx. It works with
- Fortran (well moderately so), although it is still a bit kludgey.
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