On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Kevin Handy wrote:
> Would it be possible for the error messages to display the fully expanded 
> command that caused the error as part of the message!
>
>This would also help debug ini files. Right now you just get an error 
> message with  no context.

If one is having trouble with some detail of a simh command file and you need 
to see the complete flow of how a command file is processed, the command file 
can always be invoked with verify or verbose mode enabled:

               sim> do -v some-command-file.ini

With verbose mode enabled, each command in the file is echoed prior to its 
execution (along with the filename and line number) immediately before any 
messages (error or otherwise) which the command may produce.

The default command file (which will automatically be processed when a 
simulator starts (called {simulator-name}.ini or simh.ini)) OR a command file 
explicitly mentioned on the simulator command line can also be displayed if the 
simulator is invoked with the -v switch specified on the command line.  

As for the suggestion that the command which caused an error message to be 
generated be displayed without regard to the verbose mode when processing 
command files, well it already does that.  This is new since simh v3.9.

- Mark

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