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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!ucsee.Berkeley.EDU!chiu
  2. From: chiu@ucsee.berkeley.edu
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Dr. Watson
  5. Date: 12 Sep 1992 23:32:37 GMT
  6. Organization: University of California Society of Electrical Engineers (UCSEE)
  7. Lines: 10
  8. Message-ID: <18tumlINNkf6@agate.berkeley.edu>
  9. References: <ea1ZqB2w165w@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
  10. Reply-To: chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsee.berkeley.edu
  12. Summary: What Dr. Watson is...
  13. Keywords: Undocumented features
  14. Originator: chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU
  15.  
  16. To quote from Windows 3.1 Secrets by Brian Livingston of InfoWorld,
  17.  
  18. "...Dr. Watson utility...runs in the background, and saves information about
  19. application errors and what exactly was happening when they occured...
  20. information is sasved in a text file...includes the exact instruction that
  21. caused the error"
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  23.  
  24. In other words, Dr. Watson is a debuggin' utility.
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