HP (Hewlett-Packard) Ski Simulator Manuel D’Utilisation

standard Linux fashion. The Ski command line syntax is shown below. The

,

,

, and

flags can

appear in any order.

 [

] [

filename] [

filename] [program_filename [args]+]

 [

] [

] [

filename] [

filename] [program_filename [args]+]

[

] [

] [

filename] [

filename] [

filename] [

] [program_filename

[args]+]

A list of flags accepted by this variety of Ski (

,

, or

) is printed out. No other processing is done and Ski

terminates.

The specified file is run as a command file before the first prompt to the user. If an program_filename is provided on
the same command line, the program_filename is loaded before the command file is run. This provides a convenient
way to load a program, initialize other machine state, and then turn control over to the user.

For

only: This flag specifies instruction counts should be saved in the specified file. For each kind of instruction

executed during the simulation, the instruction count file shows five fields of information:

• The instruction mnemonic

• The total number of times the instruction was executed

• The number of executions that were predicated on

• The number of executions that were predicated off

• The number of executions that were predicated on predicate register 0, which is “hardwired” on

The value in the second field equals the sum of the values in the last three fields.

For

and

only: This flag tells Ski not to create a separate console window for the simulated program’s

standard I/O. Instead, Ski will use the existing console window’s for standard I/O purposes in the simulated program.

Restore the simulator run saved in filename. See Section 8.6, “Saving and Restoring the Simulator State”. This flag
cannot be combined with an program_filename. If combined with a

flag, the

flag is accepted and the

flag

is silently ignored.

For

only: specifies execution run-time and instruction rate information should be send to standard out (stdout) at

the end of the run. This information is normally displayed in the Main/Command Window of

and

. The

 flag allows users of

 to get the same information.

XSki

’s screen presentation is substantially controlled by the contents of the

XSki

file, which uses the X Window System’s

resource mechanism to provide information to

. You can edit this file to change

’s use of graphic buttons,

described in Section 3.7.1, “The xski Main Window”. The

XSki

file is part of the standard Ski distribution and you should

put this file in your X Window System’s

app-defaults

directory or in your home directory. If there is no valid

XSki

file,

the simulator will not be usable. You can find more information on installing

in the release notes that come with each

Ski distribution.