[Simh] Command processing -- abbreviations and VM-supplied commands

2015-09-25 Thread Paul Koning
In doing a new simulator, I ran into an unexpected quirk of command parsing, in particular handling of VM-specific commands. The way it works is that a user command matches a command table entry if the user string is a prefix of the command in the table. And as soon as a match is found, the

Re: [Simh] Command processing -- abbreviations and VM-supplied commands

2015-09-25 Thread Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > In doing a new simulator, I ran into an unexpected quirk of command parsing, > in particular handling of VM-specific commands. > > The way it works is that a user command matches a command table entry if > the user string is a prefix