ultrix 4.0 dbx

[Chris Siebenmann]

frank at croton.enet.dec.com (Frank Wortner) writes:
| >  Hell, the old dbx was too. Hasn't DEC noticed yet that "help" in dbx
| > fails silently (gee, what great help you have there), for example? 
| Works just fine for me.  The script output below is from my DECstation
| 3100 running
| ULTRIX 4.0 software.

 Bolstered by Frank's evidence that it did work, I went looking for
why it didn't work for me. It turns out I had $PAGER set to
	"less -d"
something that seems to work for everything else that uses $PAGER, but
fails for dbx (dbx may be doing an exec() call directly instead of
using system()). Well, now I feel embarassed, at least somewhat; but
I'm still annoyed dbx failed silently and didn't bother printing any
sort of error message.

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