This sure would be a nice feature to SIMH - making it much more easy to start the system up - and judging from the regular questions that comes to the list regarding console/external telnet, I guess it would fill a real gap of today!
Please try to have it included in regular distributions of today! One thought/suggestion to improve further? Would it be a working idea to exchange the choice of either telnet or PUTTY with a parameter that should be a string, containing just about any command to be passed to a cmd-intepreter in a fresh window? (In the Unix-case; would it also be an idea to have another parameter to decide with command-interpreter to start??). This would allow the use of any terminal emulator of preference - there are a few commercial ones that are quite good, and for those that already has one of those going, Putty might not be that popular! Besides, is there really a "DOS"-interpreter available in all windows versions? If not, does that transform some windows-OS:es into just the same case as "Unix" above? (Use first parameter's command to start a window/shell with a command interpreter. Hand the second parameter to this interpreter... The parameter string could also, if implemented, be used to put any extra parameters one might want to add to the default-set up of a terminal program - in case one uses for example different keyboard set up (say; del/bs-key action) when running against SIMH and some other host with the one and same terminal program... /Göran _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
