[Simh] Unit/functional testing simulators

[Richard]

In article <201412030438.sB34cPYk078459 at ultimate.com>,
    Phil Budne <phil at ultimate.com> writes:

> Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> > ... Running these needs some sort of scripting paradigm to load, start
> and examine the results of such tests.
> 
> Over a decade ago I wrote a Tcl "expect" script to install ITS on a
> SIMH simulated KS-10 from "install tapes".  It isn't pretty (I had to
> look for input echo in order not to lose input characters in some
> places), but it works, or worked, I haven't run it in a while!

I thought SIMH's command language was rich enough now to support
something like this without the need for expect scripts.  Or did you
need expect because you wanted to direct text from the script into the
keyboard input of the simulated executable?
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