> 4. then you have your serial device connected over a telnet tunnel to one of > SimH's user serial ports
This looks great in theory, but breaks down (a little) in practice. One example: back in the day, I was used to TYPE-ing a long file and using CTRL-S and CTRL-Q to stop and start the listing. When using the telnet tunnel, however, for some reason the CTRL-S doesn't make it to the VAX, so VMS doesn't know about it and merrily goes on sending data, causing the internal telnet buffer to overflow. As a result, when I hit CTRL-Q to resume the listing, I've lost data. (It's been awhile since I researched this, so this description may not be 100% accurate, but that's essentially what happened. The guys over on comp.os.vms helped me to troubleshoot the problem, so I refer the gentle reader to the comp.os.vms archives for more in-depth information on it.) There are other glitches using the telnet tunnel as well, all caused by, well, telnet. Don't get me wrong: it's great that it works at all and it definitely does provide a good approximation of the experience of working at a terminal hooked up directly to a VAX, but it's not the same. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
