[Simh] Bug in SimH under WinXP?

[Mikael Ström]

Tim, Bryan, Ray, Piergiorgio, Jason and Brian,

thanks to all for your help.

Indeed, Brian's guess was correct. I did not start from the prompt, thus in
the wrong default directory (i never realized that the programs are run
under "\documents and settings\user" per default). This is not a SimH bug,
just me being an...  

Cheez, i wish that Bill never bought that CP/M system for a few hundred
bucks, went up to IBM and...

Cheers!

/Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com 
> [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Brian Knittel
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 6:25 AM
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Bug in SimH under WinXP?
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> CR/LF vs LF line endings should not be the problem.
> Both formats should work just fine on Windows machines.
> 
> My guess is perhaps it's running in the the wrong default 
> directory. You say it works when you paste the commands into 
> the terminal window. What happens if you start pdp11 and type
> 
>     do run.conf
> 
> That should be equivalent to starting pdp11.exe with run.conf 
> on the command line. Does it complain about not finding run.conf?
> 
> How are you starting pdp11.exe -- from the command prompt 
> window, or with a shortcut?
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> On 25 May 2008 at 18:16, Jason Stevens wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm on Vista...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\bsd43-reno>ren vax.ini vv.ini 
> C:\Program Files 
> > (x86)\bsd43-reno>vax.exe vv.ini VAX simulator V3.7-1 
> Listening on port 
> > 42222 (socket 176)
> > NVR: buffering file in memory
> > Waiting for console Telnet connection
> > Waiting for console Telnet connection
> > Running
> > 
> > It seems to work for me...
> > 
> > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Mikael Ström 
> <mikael at sesamgames.com>
> > wrote:
> >         Hi all,
> >         
> >         An issue came up when i tried to start SimH V3.7-3 
> under WinXP: it 
> >         seems to
> >         be a bug when starting SimH with a command file. If 
> i start SimH 
> >         with
> >         "pdp11.exe run.conf" it does not all. However, if i 
> first start 
> >         pdp11.exe
> >         and then copy & paste the run.conf to pdp11.exe's 
> terminal window, 
> >         it does
> >         work. The same files works perfecly under Linux, 
> but not in WinXP.
> >         
> >         Anyone seen this before?
> >         
> >         Cheers!
> >         
> >         /Mike
> >         
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