Micro Focus Server Express™

Debugging Handbook

MERANT™

Issue 3
March 2000

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Preface

This book describes the debugging tool Animator and gives examples of how to use it to debug applications.

Audience

You should be familiar with the COBOL language and with your operating system. You should read the Getting Started book for this COBOL system and be familiar with the COBOL development cycle described in the Server Express User's Guide before reading other books in the book set. You should also read the Utilities Handbook for information on how to access Animator from the Development Environment.

Conventions

In the books, unless otherwise stated, references to UNIX apply to all operating systems that are compatible with UNIX System V, Release 3.0 or later, complying with the System V Interface Definition (SVID).

Notation

The notation used in the books is as follows:

• Enter refers to the carriage-return or Enter key. Where commands to be typed are shown, the Enter key is not shown. It is treated as implicit that the Enter key must be pressed at the end of the line.

Command Lines

The notation used to describe the format of command lines is as follows:

• Words printed in italics are generic terms representing names to be devised by you.
  
  
• Words printed in non-italic characters are the actual words you must enter. You must type them in upper or lower case as shown.
  
  
• Square brackets [ ] mean the material inside them is optional.
  
  
• An ellipsis (...) following { } or [ ] means you can repeat the material inside them. The number of repetitions allowed is unlimited unless otherwise stated. Square brackets [ ] with an ellipsis mean you can omit the material altogether.
  
  
• If a command line does not fit across the page, it is continued on the next line; the continuation line is indented.
  
  
• All command line formats and examples are for the standard UNIX shell, the Bourne shell. If you are using another shell, see your UNIX system documentation for the appropriate formats.

Notes

• F1=Help appears on every menu in character-mode Micro Focus software. It invokes a help screen describing the current menu. F1=Help is not described in the documentation.

• What appears on your screen might differ in minor ways (for example, version numbers) from illustrations in the books. This will not affect the operation of your software.
  
  
• The books may refer you to the Release Notes for details specific to a particular UNIX platform.
  
  
• Where examples showing environment variables do not specifically show them being exported to the shell, it is treated as implicit that they are exported.
  
  
• Some keystrokes using function keys or the Alt or Ctrl keys are not available on all UNIX platforms. The Server Express User's Guide contains a UNIX Key Usage Chart, listing how the keystrokes shown in the books map onto actual keystrokes.