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Series: MacsBug!

How real people can get good mileage from Apple’s low-level debugger.

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MacsBug for the Merely Geeky, Part One

Here's a fun game: let's plot Macintosh software on a map of the Earth, based on how Mac-like the software is. We would naturally plot the points representing the easiest, most intuitive software for the Mac OS at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California

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MacsBug for the Merely Geeky, Part Two

The first part of this article in TidBITS-449 looked at MacsBug, Apple's free low-level debugger, explained how to install and invoke it, and how to use MacsBug to recover from application crashes

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MacsBug for the Merely Geeky, Part Three

Previous parts of this article explored MacsBug, Apple's free low-level debugger. First, we covered installing MacsBug and using it to recover from application crashes - we also established MacsBug as possibly the least friendly software you'll ever encounter on a Macintosh