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In message <20051003094732.H71864@fledge.watson.org>, Robert Watson writes:

>It would require some new magic in DDB and the dumping code, but 
>almost all of the logic to generate the information from DDB could be 
>reused, perhaps via an alternative pager or debug output device :-).

I'm not sure reusing DDB is by definition the best idea, my idea was
more to have a simple EVENTHANDLER and let all sorts of subsystems
hook their own private function into that.

With DDB there is a focus on fitting things on screens etc, with a
"summary dump" this is less the case and more fields could be dumped
from data structures etc.

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