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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: pcsim questions / bugs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.181548.18722@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 18:15:48 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mintaka.1992Sep10.181548.18722
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- In article <lat2rdINN2ko@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> moore@cs.utk.edu writes:
- >
- > 2. Why doesn't pcsim work when I specify a remote X display with
- > -display? It only seems to work in monochrome mode. If I try
- > running pcsim as follows: "pcsim -display wilma.cs.utk.edu:0.0 -dmode
- > V" it simply exits. (The command
- > "xterm -display wilma.cs.utk.edu:0.0" works fine.)
-
- There is a special X server extension to make the VGA somewhat faster.
- A remote server will not (and cannot) support this extension.
-
- > 3. Is there any way to exit pcsim from the DOS command line? How
- > about if I write a small program -- if I call the BIOS entry points
- > for warm boot or cold boot, will that suffice to exit pcsim?
-
- There is some bizarre sequence you can type, like "<ESC>pcsim", but my
- memory might be off. It's in the man page.
-
- > 6. I have drive E attached to my home directory. I can cd around
- > within DOS and list files with DIR. However, whenever I try to type
- > any of the files, I get a "General Failure" message followed by the
- > filename. Can anyone tell me what is going on here, and how to work
- > around it?
-
- What version of DOG are you using? DOS 5.0 doesn't work right with AIX
- directories.
-
- > 7. If I kill pcsim (which I have to do often, because it gets
- > wedged) a few times, eventually it won't let me run pcsim anymore.
- > The message I get is:
- >
- > There are too many simulator sessions running.
- > To change the maximum allowed, edit /usr/bin/pcsim.
-
- This is because the shared memory segments between the X server and the
- PCSIM process are left behind. Killing the X server *might* clean
- these up. (I haven't tried it.)
-
- > Granted, this is easy to work around, but it seems like pcsim should
- > clean up after itself when it gets a signal.
-
- Agreed.
-
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