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From: "Steve Dunn" <steve@backroom.tm>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.codewarrior
Subject: Re: Command Line CW tools
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 10:10:50 +0100
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Hello Toby,
>Can i change the topic too? :)
Yes
>"how frequently does a GUI IDE actually
do something for you that you can't
> do with a good editor, a makefile,
RCS, and the GNU compiler suite?"
Hardly ever.  Although I'd prefer to
scroll down a tree control or click a
button than type in reems of text.

Steve 'button' Dunn ;)

>On Wed, 1 Apr 1998 13:55:26 -0000,
Steve Dunn
> <stevedunnmobile@dial.pipex.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>>Surely if you take away the ide you
might as well use GNU?
>>>
>>OK,  I'll change the topic.
>>    "How about a nice GUI for GDB" ?
!!! :D
>>
>Having never used it, I don't know what
it's like, but at least for unix
>(and hence _maybe_ for Win32, using a
new cygwin32) there's a program called
>xxgdb, which provides a gui frontend.
can't comment on the quality; i'd
>much rather use gdb the way it was
intended to be used.
>
>Can i change the topic too? :)
>"how frequently does a GUI IDE actually
do something for you that you can't
> do with a good editor, a makefile,
RCS, and the GNU compiler suite?"
>
>toby.