[Simh] set cons brk

J. David Bryan jdbryan at acm.org
Mon Dec 24 02:20:02 EST 2018


On Monday, December 24, 2018 at 1:38, Mike Stramba wrote:

> What does the  "set cons brk=xx"  do ?

It sets the character that triggers a (simulated) serial break, equivalent 
to pressing the BREAK key on a serial terminal.


> I was hoping to use an alternate brk key for my "GDB problem" (gdb
> running SIMH running an OS ..... ctr-B  trapped by  GDB instead of
> SIMH)

Try SET CONSOLE WRU=<ascii-code>.  Doing SET CONSOLE WRU=6 for example 
changes the SIMH stop key from CTRL+E to CTRL+F.

                                      -- Dave



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