[Simh] [simh] scripting simh

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Tim Newsham asks today for advice on scripting simh.

I strongly recommend using expect for your scripting application; it
can do things like slowing down type-in, and randomizing the inter-key
times to simulate human fingers.  Low-level programs often lack the
input buffering capability to handle more than a few characters per
second.

See

	http://expect.nist.gov/
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/expect/

for source downloads.  Some GNU/Linux distributions, SGI IRIX, and
Solaris (in /opt/sfw/bin, which may or may not be installed) provide
it as already-installed software.

Another good possibility is the venerable kermit, which has extensive
scripting control and character-set conversion capability in both
directions:

	http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/

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