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Subject:	Re: symify problem
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Date:	Sun, 20 Oct 2002 10:32:08 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Charles Sandmann wrote:
> 
> > Should symify check the debug symbol type and warn if it's not
> > coff and it can't find bfdsymify?
> 
> I'm not sure.  SYMIFY should not use the screen estate for anything
> that is not essential.  We should not risk scrolling parts of the
> crash message off the screen, IMHO.
> 
> Perhaps a simple "(no COFF debug info)" somewhere would suffice,
> assuming we can find a place that doesn't use another screen line.

Hasn't symify already scrolled one line?  If it is mis-called it
already scrolls at least two more lines off.    Seems to me there
has to be room for something.

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