DOS Debug
Georg
end or shell for debug which makes debug easier to use?
Georg
Dirk Wolfgang Glomp
> I am unsatisfied with the user inferface of debug. Is there a front
> end or shell for debug which makes debug easier to use?
Most commands need an input of values. In the beginning i use debug
to test the instructions and look how the cpu works. In this time i
also think i need a frontend or some hotkeys to make my work with
debug easier. But Today i use an assambler to write my code.
No i can use Remarks to discribe what the part of code will do.
So i am sorry, i don´t know if an frontend of debug exist.
Dirk
lav...@altavista.com
CodeView still uses some debug commands, and also provides a full
screen user friendly interface. While not exactly a front end, you
might want to consider it as a more convenient debuging tool.
CodeView is a Microsoft product, and is more effective for debugging
programs compiled by Microsoft compilers because it interfaces with
the programmer in terms of the programming language used.
Other compiler vendors produced similar debug facilities which are
compatible with their own compilers.
Happy debugging.
Georg
sectors. So I guess Codeview or some other debugger for assembler will
not help me with this.
Georg
Dirk Wolfgang Glomp
Georg
Dirk, you are right. I will use a disk editor instead.
I just thought since debug is supplied with DOS, someone had written a
front end for debug.
Georg
Benjamin David Lunt
"Georg" <nos...@georgpotthast.de> wrote in message
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Just on a side note, a disk editor is just that, something that
will edit a disk. If you are just wanting to view the contents
of the disk and analyze the data, I would suggest you make a
image of the disk and view as a file instead. It is much safer.
I have a few tools at:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~fys/mtools.htm
for creating images of disks along with a tool I am working on
now, DUMP, which will parse a block of data from that image,
and dump it in a human readable format rather than just hex bytes.
If this is what you are looking for I hope that it helps you
in your work. If not, disregard this and I hope you find something
that will work for you.
Ben
P.S. Currently, since it is under development, DUMP comes in
a Windows only executable.
Georg
I appreciate that you look for users of your DUMP utility and I really
don't want to upset you, but from Dirk's post I used HxD and WinHex.
Both offer write protection for disk drives as default and HxD can
also open the disk images I use with Bochs.
What I am also looking for is a utility to use a DOS batch file to
copy the executable I compiled outside of Bochs onto the disk image
and then test it within Bochs. As far as I understand such a copy
utility is not available yet.
Georg
Benjamin David Lunt
No, I'm not upset :-), I am just trying to help. My MCOPYT utility
isn't yet complete, but if I would finish it, it would do just that.
Copy a file on the host system, to an image partition. It has been
a little while since I have worked on it, (haven't had the need to),
but I think it only saw FAT12/16 image files.
Anyway, just was wanting to help if I could.
Ben