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    PART 6. Fun with Crash Dumps > Notepad Debugging

    Notepad Debugging

    Have you heard about the new method of visual notepad debugging? We don't even need a debugger, just a notepad. If not, here's a recipe:

    1. Open a buggy application executable file or a DLL file you suspect in notepad.exe.



    2. Change the font to Webdings.



    3. Search for a bang: '!' (a bug in Webdings font).



    4. Remove the bug and repeat the search.



    5. Remove that bug too.



    6. Find another bug and remove it too.



    7. Consider "Replace All" if there are too many bugs.



    8. Save the debugged file.

    9. Run it - if it crashes we need to do a postmortem analysis - may be we overfixed our bugs. Or we might see a transmutation, for example, in our case the 32-bit Win32 Application2Debug.exe became an MS-DOS application silently terminating after the launch:


      

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