Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Subject: Re: [TADS 2] Runtime Error 1008
From: uknowit@idunno.org (T Raymond)
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Dan Schmidt <dfan@dfan.org> wrote in
news:usn1sjfo3.fsf@dfan.thecia.net:

> dbs@cs.wisc.edu (Dan Shiovitz) writes:
>
>| Well, this isn't really the sort of problem that can be
>| diagnosed from a description. What I would suggest is using the
>| debugger; there is a whole section of the manual about it, but
>| the short version is you compile with the -ds flag (eg, tc32 -ds
>| file.t), then do "tdb32 file.gam", and it'll start up the
>| debugger. You type 'go' to start, and then play through until
>| you get an error, at which point it'll show you what line the
>| error occurred on and break out to a prompt where you can type
>| things like "e foo" to print the value currently stored in foo.
>| This is going to be the fastest way to track down the problem if
>| you can reproduce it.
>
> And if you are in Windows, use the TADS Workbench graphical
> debugger. It's great, and very easy to use.
>

And don't forget if you go this route, your debug flag for compiling
is -ds2 ;)

Tom
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