<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 18 Jan 2018, at 11:29, Mark Pizzolato <<a href="mailto:Mark@infocomm.com" class="">Mark@infocomm.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Hi Bryan,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">These prompts can all be addressed with EXPECT and SEND commands as part of your simulator startup configuration file. These commands are built into simh. See HELP EXPECT and HELP SEND. Appropriate values to answer date and time prompts can be part of the SEND text as well. See HELP DO VARIABLE_INSERTION.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Have fun.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Hello,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I run a simh instance with RSTS (BITXOT in HECNET) and this is the sequence I use to boot it. Add these lines to your simh .INI file and see if they work for you:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div>echo</div><div>;echo "boot rp" to boot RSTS/E</div><div>echo Booting RSTS/E from RP0 (DB0:)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>EXPECT "Today\'s date?"</div><div>boot rp</div><div>SEND AFTER=10000 "%DATE_DD%-%DATE_MMM%-%DATE_YY%\r"</div><div>EXPECT "Current time?"</div><div>continue</div><div>SEND AFTER=10000 "%TIME_HH%:%TIME_MM%\r"</div><div>EXPECT "Start timesharing? <Yes>"</div><div>continue</div><div>SEND AFTER=10000 "\r"</div><div>EXPECT "Proceed with system startup? <YES> "</div><div>continue</div><div>SEND AFTER=10000 "\r"</div><div>continue</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>I hope it helps!</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Jordi Guillaumes i Pons<br class=""><a href="mailto:jg@jordi.guillaumes.name" class="">jg@jordi.guillaumes.name</a><br class="">HECnet: BITXOW::JGUILLAUMES<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></body></html>