[Simh] GOLD Keys and such

[Will Senn]

On 12/19/15 3:01 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2015-12-19 21:57, Will Senn wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>
> I hope you understand that the TERM environment variable in Unix don't 
> actually do anything, except inform running programs that they should 
> try to work the terminal using VT100 control sequences.
Yup. I had read this, but now I understand it even better. It's an 
environment variable only and therefore only meaningful to the programs 
looking for it. I have no idea if simh cares about it and after you 
commented, I tried it without the environment variable and sure enough, 
it works fine. So, really, the only thing needed is the keymapping for 
ESC-O-w

> RT-11 do not know, nor care, about a Unix environment variable. So 
> that thing is actually totally meaningless here. :-)

Indeed.
>
>> 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.
>
> Excellent. More knowledge is always useful.
>
>     Johnny
>