On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:28:29 Gregory Machin wrote: > Excuse my ignorance what is gdb ? > We prefer bottom posting if you don't mind :-) Anyways, gdb is the GNU Debugger DESCRIPTION The purpose of a debugger such as GDB is to allow you to see what is going on ‘‘inside’’ another program while it executes—or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed. Got it? :-) Cheers Manuel -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.