Chapter 1. bufdump quickstart guide

Starting bufdump

To start the bufdump program:

1. Login to a system on which the bufdump program has been installed

2. If necessary start a terminal window

3. Type:

                    bash$  bufdump 
               

Selecting a data source

This procedure will show you how to select an offline data source for detailed information about selecting data sources see the discussion of the File->Open... command in Chapter 3: The file menu.

1. Click the File menu on the menubar at the top of the bufdump main window.

2. Click the Open... menu entry in the File menu.

   This should result in the data source dialog box like the one shown below.

   

   Screen shot of the open data source dialog.

3. Use the lower part of the dialog box to navigate to the directory that has your event files and click on the event file you want to examine.

4. Click the Ok button. The dialog box will be removed from the screen.

Stepping through the event source

1. Locate the arrow button pointing right at the lower left of the bufdump main window

2. Click the right arrow button. The bufdump program will read the next buffer from the event source, decode the buffer and display the decoded buffer in the middle part of the bufdump main window.

3. Repeatedly clicking the right arrow button will tell bufdump to read subseqeunt buffers from the data source, decode and display them. Bufdump will hold several buffers in memory. As needed, the middle window will grow scroll bars to allow you to scroll back and forth through the data that has been decoded and displayed.