TIP: put it out!

[Troy Rollins]

On Jul 3, 2004, at 5:25 AM, MisterX wrote:

> To avoid the sometimes inpractical debugger (debug doesn't update the
> variables always, no command keys, awkward scrolling, impractical 
> portable
> mice, and limited screen real estate), I usually put a script line 
> like:
>
> put "a status to check:" && a variableortwo
>
> which gives me a quick and dirty status of a script.
>
> The downside of this is that sometimes you forget about one or two of 
> these
> status display lines when you release software.

May I ask why this is a problem? I thought that since there was no 
message window, such lines simply didn't do anything in a distribution.

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Troy
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