[mercury-users] Debugger question

[Fergus Henderson]

On 05-Feb-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> >From Fergus Henderson on 03/02/2001 05:22:11
> > 
> > You can achieve that using the `--tty' option to mdb.
> > Create a new virtual terminal or xterm window,
> > use the `tty' command to figure out the name of the device
> > for that terminal, run e.g. `sleep 99999' in that tty,
> > and then on another terminal/window run
> > `mdb --tty /dev/whatever ./myprog'.
> 
> This being a Monday morning, I can't see how that fixes the problem.
> How do I deliver the contents of file `foo' to stdin of a process
> running in the tty other than cutting and pasting?  Presumably just
> doing `cat foo > /dev/whatever' from elsewhere sends foo to stdout.

Sorry, my instructions were incomplete... I meant to say

	... run `mdb --tty /dev/whatever ./myprog < foo'.

Note that the I/O for *mdb* will go to /dev/whatever,
while the program's I/O goes to the usual streams,
which you can redirect in the usual way.

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