On at 2023-08-26 11:30 -0500 , Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote:
Great news, thanks! I've been following the feature request discussion
on the tracker, so it's great to see the new version with the cool new
changes.
There's a lot in this announcement (because so many new features) so I
wasn't able to reproduce all of that in the news item for the website,
but I did my best. :-)
Jim
Hi Jim,
I noticed that the file on ibiblio isn't updated yet [1]. Likewise the
FreeDOS Software page [2] linked from the website [3]. Though both of
these list 1.3 in their pathnames, so I'm not sure what the appropriate
action would be. However, I do think that the website [3] should link to
the most recent files.
Browsing ibiblio I found that the freedos/files/repositories/latest/
tree is even more outdated [4]. The ldebug/ subdirectory does have
release 5, but the ldebug.zip file (in the latest/devel/ directory) says
it is from 2022-04-04. The unstable tree has the same old files [5].
Finally, here's your news item quoted:
lDebug release 6
2023-08-26 9:27am
lDebug (that's with a small L) is a 86-DOS debugger that replaces the classic DOS Debug program.
The latest version (release 6) is available today! The new version includes several cool new
features and fixes bugs. Some features were suggested on the FreeDOS feature request tracker, and
include "style 2" and "style 3" alternative symbolic flag displays.
Fine so far.
You can display lists with leading keywords.
This is wrong, there is no change to any data displays with the leading
AS WORDS or AS DWORDS keywords. Rather, they can be specified on the
*input* that a user gives in a list parameter [6]. This modifies how the
input is parsed into a data string for the E, F, and S commands. For
example, "f 100 l 100 26" will fill the specified memory range with the
*byte* value 26h, as in 26 26 26 ... Using "f 100 l 100 as words 26",
the range is instead filled with the *word* value 26h, that is the byte
pattern 26 00 26 00 26 00 ... (The value would be truncated at the end
if it wouldn't fully fit, just like all F patterns.)
The DT "dump table" command can generate different table data.
This is a bit vague. I did intentionally refer to it as "dump text
table" though. Even "dump text" would be more accurate than only "dump
table", to refer to what it does, especially the form with a numeric
parameter.
lDebug can read a config file on startup. See the manual [7] for full details
about the new release. Get it from the lDebug website [8].
I do notice I didn't link the canonical web presence of the project [9]
in my announcement. Anyway, I would suggest linking either that or the
announcement mail itself. The latter especially because of the more
complete new features overview, without getting bogged down by the much
more detailed news-r6 section. (Of course, the repo history is even more
detailed.)
Regards,
ecm
[1]:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/devel/
[2]:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/ldebug.html
[3]: http://freedos.org/source/
[4]:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/devel/
[5]:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/unstable/devel/
[6]: https://pushbx.org/ecm/doc/ldebug.htm#parlist
[7]: https://pushbx.org/ecm/doc/ldebug.htm#news-r6
[8]: https://pushbx.org/ecm/download/ldebug/
[9]: https://pushbx.org/ecm/web/#projects-ldebug
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