[mercury-users] mdb and input redirection

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-Jan-2002, Dave Slutzkin <dave_slutzkin at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  --- David Overton <dmo at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:13:36AM +1100, Dave Slutzkin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is there any way to run a program through mdb with stdin redirected? 
> > 
> > Yes it is possible.  You just need to tell mdb where to read the
> > debugger commands from (since you presumable don't want to redirect that
> > to the same place).
> 
> When using gdb you can use the command 'run param1 < input1' - I was thinking
> of something like that.  This allows you to be fully interactive with the
> debugger, but still run the program exactly as you like.

You can use `mdb --tty /dev/tty myprogram < inputfile'.

If you're using X windows, you can also use
`mdb --window myprogram < inputfile'.

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