Re: GNU Debugger

[toby cabot <toby at gnu dot org>]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:25:40PM -0400, Neeraj Krishnan wrote:
> We were looking at the GNU Task list and have some ideas about the
> over-the-ethernet kernel debugger stub (in the kernel related projects
> section). If the task is still alive we would like to continue working on
> it, perhaps with others who have already started. 
> 
> We hope to hear from you soon.
> 
> Nitin M Shetti
> Vishal R Shah
> Neeraj Krishnan
> 
> Graduate Students, Computer Science
> Rutgers, The State University

Folks,

Thank you for your interest in helping the GNU Project!  We feel that
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