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- From: pstevens@Metaphor.COM (Paul Stevens)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: Help: Kernel Debugger
- Message-ID: <2515@cronos.metaphor.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 19:35:33 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.145724.22530@hns.com> <1992Sep8.180216.3718@javelin.sim.es.com> <1992Sep9.221627.10717@waikato.ac.nz>
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- Reply-To: pstevens@Metaphor.COM (Paul Stevens)
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- In article <1992Sep9.221627.10717@waikato.ac.nz>, hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- |> In article <1992Sep8.180216.3718@javelin.sim.es.com>, rpack@javelin.sim.es.com (Rick Pack) writes:
- |>> Just last week, I realized that the debugging kernal is NOT necessary, as
- |>> there is a great debugger included in the c-set2 package that runs under
- |>> PM and will debug PM programs. It's called IPMD. I STILL do not know
- |>> what the purpose of the debugging kernal is, as IPMD works just fine
- without
- |>> it, and there is none of this async terminal/serial port stuff.
- |>> The install documentation for workset/2 never mentions IPMD, just the
- debug
- |>> kernal, which leads you to believe that it is your only option.
- |>>
- |>
- |> Oh yeah. Use COM2. I could never get my PC booted when trying to use COM1,
- so I
- |> moved the mouse from COM2 -> COM1, and moved the debugger to COM2 (The COM1
- |> option is only mentioned for the PM debugger part of the kernel debugger, so
- |> not really sure if COM1 is workable at all if you have 2 COM ports).
- |>
-
- I can corroborate that. Even though the docs imply that you can use
- whatever com port you want by use of the /Cn flag, everyone here has
- had to use n=2 to get the debugging kernel to run.
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