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echo: os2prog
to: Don Fredricks
from: Neil Spring
date: 1994-08-02 17:06:20
subject: C/c++ Compiler

DF> NS> JP>   EMFBI, but there's a perfectly good DosBeep() method 
  DF> for PM NS> JP> debugging. (-: 
  DF> 
  DF> NS> When I have that problem, I send status messages to the COM 
  DF> port NS> and hook up the laptop over there.  Makes it easy to 
  DF> make sure NS> threads are terminating properly. 
  DF> 
  DF> NEIL -- 
  DF> 
  DF> Another alternative (for those who don't have a laptop computer 
  DF> available) is to just use printf() for your status messages. 
  DF> Redirect the output of your PM program to a file. After your 
  DF> program ends, you can use the System Editor to view the contents 
  DF> of the output file. 
  DF> 
  DF> You don't get the instant response as on the laptop, but it's 
  DF> better 
 
how would I redirect the printf?  I've done fprintf(stderr, "blah) in
the past...  but sometimes my program would crash and there would be
nothing in the file.  I wonder... no. I bet it's the Lazywrite feature of
the file cache.  What do you think?

--- Maximus/2 2.01wb


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