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From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: where to find scodb documentation
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:55:17 GMT
Message-ID: <20040520105517.GU10272@sco.com> 
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Barry Swane wrote:

> Can someone point me to documentation on scodb?  man scodb makes
> reference to the SCODB User's Guide.  I thought I had a complete set
> of manuals- but I don't have that one.

This seems like it should have a simple answer, but it doesn't.  It's
compounded by two operating systems, multiple versions, local and remote
docs, different doc servers, in-kernel and user-level versions of the
debugger, and reference vs. guide docs.  Whee...

There are two basic documents: the SCODB User's Guide (in various
forms), and the scodb(ADM) man page.

The man page is easy and short: it just describes how to invoke the
user-level scodb.  All usage information is deferred to the User's
Guide.  To reach the man page:

  (local)   man scodb
  (remote)  http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/man/html.ADM/scodb.ADM.html

The guide comes in various editions.  It's been changed slightly over
the years to reflect slight improvements in scodb.  Also, scodb was
ported to UnixWare, so there are a couple of UW7 editions of the guide.
On UW7, scodb is a kernel-level debugger only (no user-level
/etc/scodb).

OSR506 systems should have a local copy of the guide, plus you can
access the same edition remotely:

  (local)   http://localhost:457/SCODB/CONTENTS.html
  (remote)  http://osr5doc.ca.sco.com:457/SCODB/CONTENTS.html

OSR507 systems should have a local copy of the guide, plus you can
access the same edition remotely:

  (local)   http://localhost:8457/en/SCODB/CONTENTS.html
  (remote)  http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/man/html.ADM/scodb.ADM.html

Note that the editions shipped with 506/507 actually apply best to
OSR504!  To get a guide that is actually up to date for 505/506/507, you
need to get it from the Hardware Developer's Kit (HDK) docs, available
online at:

  (remote)  http://docsrv.sco.com/HDK_basics/CTOC-scodb_top_osr.html

But don't worry, the actual changes are minuscule.  Basically, this
section is added:

" Version 2.4.0 of SCODB is for the SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.5 kernel.
" The following features are new to this release:
"   * Automatic creation of the stundef and vardef files for the
"     user-level scodb command.
"   * The boot code is modified to show when scodb is configured and the
"     current DBKEY value that determines the key strokes used to invoke
"     kernel-level scodb.

The UnixWare 7 edition of the SCODB User's Guide was originally
presented in guide form, up through UW 7.1.0:

  (remote)  http://docsrv.sco.com/HDK_basics/CTOC-scodb.intro.html

After that, it was merged into a single man page, scodb(1M).  Unlike
OSR5 scodb(ADM), scodb(1M) is the full document and describes the
in-kernel scodb (as there is no user-level version on UW7):

  (local)   man scodb
  (remote)  http://docsrv.sco.com/cgi-bin/man/man?scodb+1M

Finally, the HDK includes a "quick reference" guide to OSR5 scodb, UW7
scodb, and UW7 kdb (suitable to be printed out and laminated, if you're
a heavy user...):

  (remote)  http://docsrv.sco.com/HDK_basics/CTOC-debug_quickref.html

UW7 users will also want to look up kdb, ekdb, crash, kcrash.  OSR5
users will also want to look up crash, sysdump.

>Bela<

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