Man page for psbrowser
NAME
psbrowser - Mjolner BETA Persistent Store Browser (version
2.2)
SYNOPSIS
psbrowser
AVAILABILITY
The Mjolner BETA Persistent Store Browser is available as
part of the Mjolner BETA System from Mjolner Informatics.
DESCRIPTION
psbrowser is a generic object browser for browsing in the
object structures stored in a persistent store.
The psbrowser is specialized to browse objects found in a
persistent store (~beta/persistentstore/v1.6). Psbrowser is
able to browse objects whose code is not linked int o the
browser executable.
Having launched the psbrowser, your next move is to open a
persistent store. Do so by selecting "Open..." from the
"File" menu. In the resulting dialog, enter the name of the
persistent store and click the "Ok" button. A nested
rootlist listing the names of the persistent roots will ap-
pear. The name of the rootlist window corresponds to the
name of the persistent store. It is allowed to open multiple
persistent stores at a time.
To open a window showing a persistent root object, double-
click the name of that root in the rootlist. An ObjectView
showing the root object will appear.
The objectview uses abstract presentation of the objects
presented. This means that nested partobjects are initially
shown contracted, i.e. as three dots. By double-clicking a
line of the object view ending in '...', the hidden details
will be shown. By double-clicking the same line again, the
details are hidden.
Each line in the objectview corresponds to some attribute of
the object. Simple attributes (@Char, @Integer, ...) cannot
be further detailed, whereas other kinds of attributes can.
It is not possible to browse stores created on architectures
with an endian different from that of the machine runnning
the psbrowser (e.g. between Intel on the one hand and either
Motorola, HP-PA, SGI-MIPS or SPARC on the other hand).
However, it is a requirement that the persistent store is
created, using the socalled 'full name patch'.
See the file ~beta/objectbrowser/v2.1/psbrowser/README for
more information on how to use psbrowser.
OPTIONS
(none)
SEE ALSO
beta(1) - BETA Compiler
betawc(1) - BETA fragment analyzer
betatar(1) - BETA tar(1) front-end
betafs(1) - Mjolner BETA Fragment Structure Lister
sif(1) - Hyper-Structure Editor
valhalla(1) - Mjolner BETA Source-Level Debugger
AUTHORS
Psbrowser is developed by Mjolner Informatics as part of the
Mjolner BETA System.
Questions, bug-reports, etc. may be directed to
support@mjolner.dk if the local support organization cannot
find solutions to the problems.
For more information of the Mjolner BETA System, please con-
tact Mjolner Informatics, Science Park Aarhus, Gustav Wieds
Vej 10, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark, phone: +45 86 20 20 00,
fax: +45 86 20 12 22, e-mail: info@mjolner.dk.