[Simh] Errors when using pUTTY terminal emulator to telnet to simh.

[Wilm Boerhout]

Rey Leonar vaguely mentioned on 28-5-2009 2:38:
> I'm a first time user of this SIMH.
>  
> Just recently installed the latest version on SIMH (3.8-1). on my 
> laptop running XP sp3. I'm using the VAX emulator and successfully 
> installed VAX/VMS ver 5.3. It runs smoothly on my laptop except that I 
> don't like the built-in console terminal.
>
> So I tried using Putty to telnet  to SIMH as my console terminal, a 
> little change on the openvms.ini, just uncomment
> "set console telnet=6969" and when SIMH run, it will just wait for a 
> telnet session before the SIMH start to boot.When my Putty connects to 
> SIMH the following message appear and I can't successfuly boot to 
> DUA0, it looks like its hanging...
>
> This is the message displayed on my Putty terminal emulator....
>
> .
> .
> .
> Connected to the VAX simulator
>
>
>
> ?C6 2 01 FF 00 0000
>
> P1=00000000 P2=00000000 P3=00000000 P4=00000000 P5=00000000
> P6=00000000 P7=00000000 P8=00000000 P9=00000000 P10=00000000
> r0=00000080 r1=00000020 r2=00000000 r3=201407A4 r4=2004D2F0
> r5=2004D310 r6=2004D312 r7=00000000 r8=00000000 ERF=80000000
>
>
> KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7
> Performing normal system tests.
> 40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25..
> 24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09..
> 08..07..06..05..04..03..
> Normal operation not possible.
>
> .
> .
>
> I'd tried again another terminal emulator. Eterm32 Plus, but still 
> same message displayed as in Putty.BUT...when I used again another 
> emulator, TeraTerm, ITS WORKING FINE. everything then is OKAY.
>
> I just wondering what specific settings on Putty or the Eterm32Plus, 
> that triggers the error in Siimh, and which is not in the TERA TERM. 
> I'd already tried to compare the settings of those emulators but so 
> far I was not successful to make the PUTTY or the ETERM32 work with simh.
>
> Do you guys have similar experience like this?
>
>
> rey
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What command do you use (exactly) to start puTTY?

By default, puTTY starts an SSH session. SIMH needs telnet, for example:

puTTY -telnet -P 6969 localhost

will work for me. I use puTTY all the time with SIMH,  no problems.

/Wilm