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<TITLE>Console Window Help</TITLE>
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<H1>The Console Window</H1>
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<H3>Overview</H3>
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<P>The Console Window is perhaps the most powerful tool in the debugger. It
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provides functionality equivalent to almost all of the debugger's secondary
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windows, macro definitions, and other more advanced features.</P>
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<P>Console Window topics:
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<UL>
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<LI><UL><A HREF="#display">Console Display</A>
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<LI><A HREF="#display_cmd">Executing Commands</A>
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<LI><A HREF="#display_hlp">Getting Help</A>
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</UL>
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</UL></P>
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<H3><A NAME="display">Console Display</A></H3>
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The Console Display is simply a scrolled window in which the debugger prompt
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appears. By default, the prompt is set to "(gdb) ", but it may be changed via a
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command line option.
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<P>To <A NAME="display_cmd">execute commands</A> in the console window, simply enter
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the command in the display. If the debugger is busy, the message "Error: The
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debugger is busy." appears informing the user that the command was not accepted.</P>
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<P>Whenever a command is executed, the debugger's windows will update to display
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any new state information. Any output from the command is also echoed to the Console
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Window for ease of use. If an error occurs, an error message is printed to the Console
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Window. All error messages appear in the Console Window using a red colored typeface.
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</P>
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<P>The Console Window responds to special character commands just as a shell window
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does: it has a history mechanism which allows the user to scan previously used commands
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by pressing the up and down arrow keys on the keyboard, jumping to the beginning or
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end of a line by entering Ctrl-A or Ctrl-E, erasing a line by pressing Ctrl-K, and
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more. Users familiar with GNU Emacs will recognize these keys as commonly used
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keystrokes from that editor.</P>
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<H3><A NAME="display_hlp">Getting Help</A></H3>
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The Console Window has its own online help system. To access the help system, enter
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"help" at the prompt and follow the on-screen instructions. For more help, please
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consult the <!-- What is this really called? --> <I>GDB User's Guide</I>.
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