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Inter-Office Memorandum
To Mesa Users Date May 31. 1978
From Barbara Koalkin Location Palo Alto
Subject Debugger - Extended Features Organization SDD/SD
XEROX
Filed on: [IRIS]
There are three extended features available with the Mesa 4.0 debugger on an experimental
basis. One of these provides access to FTP to allow a user to retrieve files from remote
locations from within the debugger. Another new debugger command allows a user to
invoke a special debugging package. The window manager (WindEx) has been expanded in
an attempt to extend the user interface to the debugger. Each feature is described below in
further detail. We encourage feedback on these features and remind you that due to their
experimental nature. they are subject to change.
Debugger FTP'
The Mesa 4.0 debugger has the capability to invoke a subset of the standard FTP commands
from within the debugger environment without having to exit to the Alto Executive. The
debugger's FTP command is built on top of the standard Mesa FTP package and therefore
any comments and/or problems regarding FTP itself should be addressed to the SDD
Communications Group. tFtp (control-F) enables the following commands (see the FTP
documentation for further details):
Close connection [confirm]
closes the currently open FTP connection.
DE 1ete f il en ame filename
tries to delete filename from the local disk. regardless of whether the file is in use. If it
finds it impossible to delete the file due to some of its own pointers that would be left
dangling. it does not allow you to do so (e.g .