I have another (which might be stupid) question about SimH. Is there anyway to easilly script keyboard entries *after* the simulation starts. I'd love to be able to bring up my PDP 11/70 emulator without any keyboard input. Did I mention you can play Adventure and Dungeon from my BBS -- the BBS creates a RSTS/E account for you, and logs you on automatically. Everything is automated, with menus, for the Hard of RSTS. telnet bbs.retrobbs.org 2323 Take Care, Mark Mike Gemeny wrote: -- "I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here." -------------------------------------------------------------- Website - http://www.retrobbs.org Tradewars - telnet tradewars.retrobbs.org BBS - telnet bbs.retrobbs.org 2323 IRC - irc.retrobbs.org #main WIKI - http://www.tpoh.org/cgi-bin/tpoh-wiki

Jerome Fine replies: I don't think that John Wilson monitors this list, so I though that the following information might be helpful! Just in case anyone who needs this feature is running under an operating system that supports Ersatz-11, the feature (being able to "ATTACH" devices in mid stream - except under Ersatz-11 the command is "MOUNT") is available. To use it, the user types <SHIFT/ENTER> on the keyboard. I presume that the usual cautions are just as likely to be ignored under Ersatz-11, but I suggest that a user would want to "DETACH" very carefully. In addition, someone else asked about making changes to how keys are used. Ersatz-11 has a VERY powerful set of commands that allow the user to define how every key is used. In my case, I use the "Caps Lock" key as the "LCtrl" key since that is the normal location on a VT100 keyboard (actually beside the "Caps Lock" key). Also, the VT100 has a "No Scroll" key beside the "LShift" on the keyboard. On the standard 104 key PC keyboard, I define the action of the "LCtrl" key to be equivalent to the action of the "No Scroll" key on the VT100 keyboard. Finally, I also found that I strongly NEED the 6 EDIT keys found on the VT220 keyboard when I run RT-11 under Ersatz-11 on a PC. Ersatz-11 allows me to define the 6 EDIT keys above the 4 ARROW keys such that RT-11 thinks that a VT220 LK201 keyboard is being used when the appropriate EDIT key is pressed. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.