[Simh] Tip for using PuTTY Telnet client to connect to SIMH serial ports

[Jason Stevens]

Hmm thanks for the hint, I've been using flashterm and going insane with why
I have to llogin ... :)



On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:29 AM, roy hills <royhills at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I'm not sure if this is common knowledge, but I thought I'd post to the
> list just in case it's not and others have had this problem.
>
> I use SIMH on Windows, and use PuTTY as the Telnet client to connect to the
> simulated serial ports on PDP-11 and VAX 11/780.  I had problems with input
> characters occasionally being missed (e.g. type "cat filename", get "at
> filename"), and stray "q" characters being input (leave terminal unattended
> for a few minutes, come back to see "qqq").
>
> The problem turned out to be because I had keepalives turned on, which was
> sending nulls every 90 seconds.  After disabling this by setting the value
> to 0, the problem has gone away.  The setting is under PuTTY's "connection"
> menu.
>
>
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