[Simh] GOLD Keys and such

Will Senn will.senn at gmail.com
Sat Dec 19 15:57:29 EST 2015



On 12/19/15 1:42 PM, Random832 wrote:
> Either's VT100 emulation should be acceptable, though

Latest update, taking bits and pieces from folks comments...

I started Terminal and set the terminal variable to VT100 then started a 
new bash:
TERM=vt100 exec bash

started the rt-11 simulation
pdp11 boot.ini

then tried ked somefile

I was able to use fn-F1 as the Gold Key, but I couldn't figure out how 
to get Command. I then hooked up a regular mac keyboard to the laptop 
(it has a numeric keypad) and was able to get both fn-F1 and numeric 
keypad 7 to work as GOLD-COMMAND. This was encouraging. I went back to 
the laptop keyboard and was able to use fn-F1 as GOLD and then ESC-O-w 
as command, remembering y'alls advice. This was workable, but not ideal. 
So, I took a look at the keyboard tab in Terminal preferences and was 
able to assign ESC-o-w to a key and voila, rational keyboard :).

Thanks for all of the tips and pointers. I am pretty pleased with the 
way things are working now and have a much greater level of 
understanding of how to figure these sorts of issues out going forward. 
I am glad that it works with a regular terminal because copy and paste 
and such in the host is much simpler than with xterm or another emulator.

Regards,

Will


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