Hi Mark,

With the remote console feature, you can 'control' a simulator by executing a 
limited set of "sim>" commands to an already running simulator.  Something must 
initially start the simulator and enable the remote console functionality on a 
particular TCP port.  The simulator must be executing instructions before it 
will be able to accept commands via a remote console session.

If you just want your simulator to continue running (without ever dropping back 
to a "sim>" prompt), then you can start it by any interesting means you desire 
on the platform you're using.  You can enable a remote console to that you can 
reach in and possibly change media from time to time (i.e. changed attached 
disk and/or tape images).  You can enable the console telnet session and have 
it enabled as BUFFERED.  With a buffered console, the simulator will run 
(execute instructions) WITHOUT an active console telnet session.  When a telnet 
connection is established to the console telnet port, the buffer contents are 
spit out to the telnet session (i.e. displaying what happened on the console 
recently), and input to the console port is enabled.  This buffered console is 
ONLY traffic which the simulator wrote to and read from the console serial 
port.  It is NOT a means of entering commands at a "sim>" prompt.

Does this make sense?


-          Mark

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Mark Benson
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 12:55 PM
To: SIMH List
Subject: [Simh] Control SimH totally remotely

Ministry of stupid questions asks:

I was wondering if, with the new REMOTE SCP input feature, it is possible to 
boot SimH headless and control it entirely from the REMOTE telnet SCP console.

--

Mark Benson

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