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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