On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:17:21 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) wrote:
> Does Windows do this? (I know other OSes, like VMS, do *not* do it) > If so, how do I enable it? If not, I presume there's some reasonably > simple way to attach a debugger to a process that's died. (I hope) You can pursuade Dr.Watson (How I hate that cutesy name!) to produce a dump file (of sorts) when a trap occurs. To configure this, type drwtsb32 at a command prompt and follow the prompts for the naming and locating of the dump file, what gets dumped etc. See [http://windows.about.com/library/weekly/aa000903b.htm] here for a fairly breif but clear overview of the configuration options. Personally, I haven't made much use of these as I didn't find them very useful, but then I didn't make much of a unix dump last (only) time I looked at one either. For a free, powerful (though GUI) debugger that can be used to debug literally any win32 process (even without the presence of symbol files, though these are stringly recommended), see [http://www.smidgeonsoft.prohosting.com/#PEBrowse ] . There are several other very useful tools and some good information from the home page at [http://www.smidgeonsoft.com/]. Regards, Nigel Sandever. Ps. Sorry if this ends up getting posted twice. I didn;t realise I had to do the confirmation step after subscribing.
