MVD(1X)             RISC/os Reference Manual              MVD(1X)



NAME
     mvd - Mips Graphical Debugger

SYNOPSIS
     mvd [-I directory] [-c file]  [-i]  [-r]  [-pixie]  [object]
     [core]

DESCRIPTION
     Mvd is a graphical user interface to the Mips dbx(1)  source
     level  debugger.   It  provides  a  multi-window, high level
     interface for debugging application programs.  See the  "Mvd
     User's  Manual" for a detailed description of how to use its
     interface features.  This man page describes only how to set
     up your environment to run mvd for the first time.

     Mvd works as a graphical interface process that communicates
     with  a  host  debugger.  This release of mvd is designed to
     work with a special  dbx(1)  provided  with  the  RISCWindow
     release.   Mvd  will not function with the standard dbx pro-
     gram (it will in the next release).  To tell  mvd  where  to
     find  its  debugger,  you must have the environment variable
     VDEBUGGER set to the full path name to  the  special  dbx(1)
     program:

          setenv VDEBUGGER /usr/X11/bin/dbx/dbx

     Set this variable in your .cshrc or .login file.

     Like dbx(1), mvd can optionally have an initialization file,
     which  is  very much like .dbxinit (see dbx(1)).  In fact it
     has the same syntax.  It is used to  send  commands  to  dbx
     that  are  needed or desired when running dbx under mvd, but
     not needed or desired when  running  dbx  alone.   The  only
     thing  that you need in this file is a 'set' command for the
     $page variable.  I also like to change the $prompt.   So  my
     $HOME/.mvdinit file contains the two following lines:

          set $page=0
          set $prompt="-mvd-"

     You may still have your traditional .dbxinit files in  addi-
     tion to the .mvdinit file.

OPTIONS
     Mvd accepts all of the standard  X11  toolkit  command  line
     options,  as  well  as all dbx(1) command line options.  See
     X(1) and dbx(1) for details.

FILES
     /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/MVD - resource file for mvd
     $HOME/.mvdinit                - optional initialization file for mvd
     $HOME/.dbxinit                - optional initialization file for dbx



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AUTHOR
     Andrew Peebles, Mips Computer Systems, Inc.

SEE ALSO
     dbx(1), "Mvd User's Manual", X(1)


















































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