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From:	babcock AT shell1 DOT cybercom DOT net (Robert Babcock)
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Subject:	Re: The ladybug saga, by Frag Brain
Date:	11 Jul 1996 22:23:09 -0400
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sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) writes:

>A big company (which will remain nameless) asserted their legal clout,
>threatening the author of ldbg with legal action to stop using this name,
>since they held a trademark on ladybug (or something similar) as a 
>debugger.  The files were pulled from Simtel, and still smarting from
>being punished for doing the good dead of making his debugger available,
>Long Doan has no interest in continuing to make it available.

>One nice feature is that NNDBG supports debugging via a VT100 terminal
>(or emulator) attached to a serial port on the machine, so you can 
>debug graphics programs on a single monitor system.

>Better yet, hold a name contest, and the winner gets the first copy...

>No, even better yet, whoever finishes the V2 port, including profiling,
>gets to name it ...

Remember the ditty "Ladybug, ladybug fly away home..."?  How about calling it
flyaway or bugaway?

I worked on the V1 debugger for a while, trying to make it run over a
pipe (under OS/2) instead of a serial port.  C Kermit created the pipe
and served as a VT100 emulator.  I got far enough to verify that the
concept was sound, but I never got around to sorting out what should
be sent over the pipe and what should go to the local screen.  I could
revive that code if there is an effort to finish the V2 port.

There's a logo-like program called ladybug at Simtel.net and
Coast-to-Coast which dates back at least to 1989.  Perhaps that isn't
a problem since it isn't a debugger.

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