[Coco] C debbuging system?

Tue Jun 14 22:41:35 EDT 2016

Unfortunately that post has been deleted, I did not understand that I needed to save my posts. Perhaps if you ask the owner of http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/ he might be able to find it in an old archive. It might still be online, but I was unable to find it a few months ago and just now. It has most of the article scanned and partially OCRed. I could do a better job today with the tools I have. But no time currently. Printed Magazine is in my hand.

Computer Language February 1996, "Bugs Nevermore!" by Thomas D. Webb. Google found a sample program:

http://www.pcorner.com/list/C/CLMDEBUG.ZIP/DRIVER.C/ 

What I created had none of the MSDOS features in the article, but it still was useful.

See SHF80 on my website http://home.mindspring.com/~sfischer1/  (80T 2S DNS=3)

The "DEBUG" folder has the source (if my printed HDirect listing is current, but it has some notes that other files were moved.) My memory of 1989 "C" debugging is that I do not want to go there again. I have purchased too many Borland products with great debugging tools. If I remember what program still has the debugging statements in it I will tell you. Perhaps the "SORT" program on the same disk which is K&R's SortMerge. Painfully slow as the person who asked for it discovered only when he tried to use it. All SortMerges are very slow. 

I wrote all my scripts for Shellplus 2.1a, that one may run on NitrOS-9's native shell. (Sorry no, it requires "ECHO ...\c" that was on Delphi / C$S. ) I also have one script that cannot be run without writing a new (Display, Echo, or ...) Command and replacing what is on NitrOS-9.

The w.s script calls windows.s, I do not know if passing variables to scripts is working.

For the real understanding of windows.s you need to see the windowing section of the OS-9 Level-II manual. It might be online in the NitrOS-9 documentation.

Robert's method is more friendly. When I wrote windows.s what he used was not invented yet. (I actually have a Decimal / Hex / Octal HP calculator.)

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Nelson" <barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 6:22 PM
Subject: [Coco] C debbuging system?

>A C debugging system? I would like to see more information about that.
> 
> I did look over that window script. It looked very nice. What shell does it require to run? Shell Plus? Any particular version?
> 
> What is the URL of your web page?
> 
> To me, any information about the CoCo is welcome.
> 
> Old programmers never die, they just get ported to a new OS.
> 
>> Stephen H. Fischer SFischer1 at Mindspring.com 
>> Tue Jun 14 21:02:20 EDT 2016
>> 
>> ~snip~
>> 
>> Did you read my post about starting with better windows? That is just one of the many scripts I developed decades ago but was not my actual solution which was to build better window descriptors into the boot. I had a sweet "C" development system of scripts which in the words of ---------------, you don't need to use scripts, it does not matter if those are broken which was added to one of the threads. I used up to four windows on the same OS-9 screen but that is also not welcome. Why is OS-9 from the time of Delphi and C$S so hated now, in many ways it was better!
>> 
>> CoCo's are fun, I have been trying to pass on much of what I used back then with OS-9. Yes, lots of scripts. Even the post where I presented a "C" debugging system which I got from the "C" language magazine has been deleted. 
>> 
>> My webpage continues to have traffic which surprises me a little as I have not posted very often about it.
>> 
>> I posted about what was on Facebook and did make an mistake about VB6, which I am unhappy about with another person who created a dangerous  Windows CoCo program which I promoted.
>> 
>> My programming days are over.
>> 
>> SHF
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