Date:	Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:05:44 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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Subject:	Re: Need help with FSDB/EDEBUG32 before I lose my mind
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> > > I know it might seem stupid that a dos  debugger doesn't do this itself
> > 
> > Patches to fsdb to make it look for .exe are welcome.
> 
> Actually i thought about this, but wouldn't it complicate matters rather
> than be a help.

It was you who said ``it might seem stupid etc.'', not me ;-)

> I mean most people including yours truly who are familiar
> with a unix like system expect a command like "fsdb hello" to be exactly
> that, ie load a hello file instead of loading a  hello.exe file as an
> other dos based debugger would do.

One possibility to solve this would be to look for `hello', and if it's 
not found, look again for `hello.exe'.

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