Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:5896 From: babcock AT shell1 DOT cybercom DOT net (Robert Babcock) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: The ladybug saga, by Frag Brain Date: 11 Jul 1996 22:23:09 -0400 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <9607111547 DOT AA17313 AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell1.cybercom.net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) writes: >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. >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. >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 ... Remember the ditty "Ladybug, ladybug fly away home..."? How about calling it flyaway or bugaway? I worked on the V1 debugger for a while, trying to make it run over a pipe (under OS/2) instead of a serial port. C Kermit created the pipe and served as a VT100 emulator. I got far enough to verify that the concept was sound, but I never got around to sorting out what should be sent over the pipe and what should go to the local screen. I could revive that code if there is an effort to finish the V2 port. There's a logo-like program called ladybug at Simtel.net and Coast-to-Coast which dates back at least to 1989. Perhaps that isn't a problem since it isn't a debugger.