From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<9607111547.AA17313@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: The ladybug saga, by Frag Brain
To:	Sengan DOT Short AT durham DOT ac DOT uk
Date:	Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:47:10 -0600 (CDT)
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<8020.9607111522@ws-ai5.dur.ac.uk> from "Sengan.Short@durham.ac.uk" at Jul 11, 96 04:22:37 pm

> > Also true for EDEBUG32 and pirate LDBG ports.
> I though ldbg was freeware? It was in the v1 distribution!
> (ldbg = lady debug, right?)

A big company (which will remain nameless) asserted their legal clout,
threatening the author of ldbg with legal action to stop using this name,
since they held a trademark on ladybug (or something similar) as a 
debugger.  The files were pulled from Simtel, and still smarting from
being punished for doing the good dead of making his debugger available,
Long Doan has no interest in continuing to make it available.

I have (somewhere...) the V1.x and V2.x distributions, but they require
modifications to the documentation/file names/images to purge the legally
questionable names, and a new name would need to be chosen.  The code
can still be distributed, but LD doesn't want to be asked questions
about it, have his initials in the name, etc.

I was thinking about NNDBG, for No-Name debugger :-)

One nice feature is that NNDBG supports debugging via a VT100 terminal
(or emulator) attached to a serial port on the machine, so you can 
debug graphics programs on a single monitor system.

Maybe if someone comes over to my house and cleans up my hard disks they
can have a copy of CWSDBG (OOOPS, i mean NNDBG...) ;-)

Better yet, hold a name contest, and the winner gets the first copy...

No, even better yet, whoever finishes the V2 port, including profiling,
gets to name it ...

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