[Simh] [simh] scripting simh

[Don North]

Expect scripting works great for SIMH. I wrote an expect script that 
plays blackjack (as the human)
against a blackjack program (running as the dealer) on a SIMH PDP-8 
running FOCAL.

On 10/18/2010 1:33 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> 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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