[Simh] Slightly OT: Headless SIMH on Raspberry Pi

[Rob Jarratt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-
> edge.com] On Behalf Of Mark Benson
> Sent: 03 November 2012 23:18
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Slightly OT: Headless SIMH on Raspberry Pi
> 
> 
> On 3 Nov 2012, at 22:41, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > On 3 November 2012 22:15, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
> >> I want to run SIMH on my headless Raspberry Pi, to do so I use putty
> >> to connect to the pi and log in. From the shell I can run SIMH just
> >> fine. What I would like though is for my session not to disappear if
> >> I close putty and to be able to reconnect to the session at some
> >> later time, with SIMH still running. I am not really a Unix expert, is
there
> a way to do this?
> >
> > "screen" http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ or "tmux"
> > http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ are two very useful tools for just this
> > :)
> 
> I use gnu 'screen' extensively on my Rasbperry Pi VAX setups to do just
that.
> Works a charm, and you can detach the session at any time and it will keep
> buffering.
> 
> Right now I recommend this as the best way to run SimH headless and
> without a need for a perpetual terminal. I'm hoping something better might
> come along that doesn't require additional software, though.
> 
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Thanks to everyone for the replies. I am trying out screen now and it seems
to be working well.

Regards

Rob