Re: [Sheflug] Debug equivalent

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

At 15:10 28/06/2000 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Steve Tickle wrote:
>
> > Can someone please point me in the direct of a Linux equivalent of the old
> > M$-DOS `debug' application?
>
>I suppose you'd like edlin too? ;))
>
>To be honest, I don't think there is a version. You can get close with a
>combination of hexdump, nasm, gdb, etc. I don't really think you want to
>go back to debug, though. How many people here wrote assembler programs in
>debug? I did. I fully remembering writing programs that would corrupt the
>BX register, and would often lose them when w'ing, or making them vastly
>larger than they were supposed to be. Ahh, those were the days....
>usually, BX was my counter, which was often at zero, and I'd end up
>zeroing the file on write.

Actually, I don't want it for programming or anything like that at all, I'd 
just like to be able to look at the MAC addresses of a few NICs by looking 
at the memory space they reside in... simple as that really.

So what do you recommend?


Steve


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