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From:	Jim Michaels <jmichae3 AT yahoo DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	gdb doesn't work on windows
Date:	Sun, 22 May 2011 23:13:06 -0700 (PDT)
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the curses library that gdb is using doesn't work on windows XP's
cmd.exe or windows command.com.
I don't like curses.  ncurses (no curses) works much better, however,
I am not the author.

what I essentially get with all djgpp products is a temporary 50-line
mode (all my consoles have 9999 lines and 80 or 132 columns).  within
that temporary 50-line mode while the djgpp program runs, with gdb I
get a gdb line at the bottom of the console and the cursor at the
center left.  if I press enter, the gdb line appears where the cursor
was.  once in a while, I get 2 gdb lines during my debugging session,
which essentially consists of:

gdb buildnum.exe
 (press enter to see the prompt in its new place)
r  -bat phone -txt buildnm -cmd laramie
l 10
q

with the l command I don't see any lines of my code, I only see the
gdb command prompt and some hacked-off output.

somebody please fix.

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