Roland Mainz wrote: >>but the mixing of the grammars between dbx >>and ksh is problematic. > > > What do you mean here exactly ? Do you mean that "dbx" depends on ksh > syntax in some cases or something else ? >
In dbx some commands treat special characters one way, and some treat them another way. print x > outfile will compare the two variables 'x' and 'outfile' (arguments to 'print' are treated as C/C++ syntax) regs > outfile will dump the output of the regs command into the file 'outfile' (arguments to 'regs' are treated as ksh syntax) That's what I meant by the grammar mixes them together. > Is there a way to look at the current "dbx" sources to see how it is > implemented right now ? It could help a lot to decide how to proceed... At the moment dbx is not open source, so the source is only available inside Sun. --chris
