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Taking a look at TakeFive's latest release of its popular debugger.
Last year we looked at SNiFF +, a debugger-plusextras package that proved to be a winner (UNIX Review, April 1997, p. 61). SNiFF+ lets you add your favorite debugger and compiler, then acts both as an integrator to launch these applications from a common interface and as a full-featured editor and browser. If you didn't like SNiFF + 's editor, you simply substituted your favorite. Didn't like one of the browsers? Replace it. What SNiFF + provided was a way to tie disparate applications into a more homogeneous development environment, offering features found in all-in-one suites but with the flexibility to customize almost every component for C, C + +, FORTRAN, Java, and CORBA IDL development.
Following up on that product, TakeFive Software Inc. has released version 3.0 of SNiFF + . We were supplied with a pre-shipping edition of the package with only a CD-ROM, but the final release will be the same as what we reviewed. We had no paper documentation to review, although the manuals came on the CD as compressed PostScript files.
The CD-ROM of SNiFF + includes software for many target platforms including Solaris (our test bed), AIX, HP-UX, other UNIX variants (including, surprisingly, Linux), and Windows. After you mount the CD, a single installation script guides you through the process. It asks all the relevant questions, such as which version of UNIX you are installing (more...