[Simh] Problems running SIMH CP/M on Mac OSX 10.5.4`

[Kevin Handy]

Lee Hauser wrote:
> I've been trying to run CP/M 2.2 on the SIMH Altair simulator. It
> doesn't work; if I double-click the cpm2 script directly it opens
> Terminal and responds with:
>
> Last login: Mon Jul 14 19:52:41 on ttys000
> administrators-macbook-pro-15:~ lee$ /Users/lee/altairz80osx/cpm2 ; exit;
>   
You are trying to run the command file as a shell script.
You should execute the emulator, and point it at the command
file.

Something along the lines of:

    ./BIN/altairz80 cpm2
> /Users/lee/altairz80osx/cpm2: line 1: d: command not found
> /Users/lee/altairz80osx/cpm2: line 2: attach: command not found
> /Users/lee/altairz80osx/cpm2: line 3: attach: command not found
> /Users/lee/altairz80osx/cpm2: line 4: attach: command not found
> reset: unknown terminal type cpu
> Terminal type?
>
> When I respond with "VT100" (which I'm sure is the wrong choice) it
> responds with:
>
> Erase is delete.
> Interrupt is control-C (^C).
> /Users/lee/altairz80osx/cpm2: line 13: boot: command not found
> logout
>
>   
These messages appear to be from the shell (bash, csh, ???) on
your system trying to make sense of the simh command file.
> [Process completed]
>
> If I run the simulator first, and use the commands
>
> sim> attach dsk cpm2.dsk
> sim> boot dsk
>
> terminal simply stops responding.
>
> I ran the CP/M simulator successfully on a Windows XP machine, so I'm
> not at all sure what is wrong. I'd appreciate any help!
>
> Lee Hauser
>