18 Sep
2015
18 Sep
'15
4:09 p.m.
On 9/18/2015 7:08 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
From: Charles: Thursday, September 17, 2015 6:46 PM
I have also used 'expect' to drive SIMH to have my 'expect' robot play
tic-tac-toe vs the PDP-8 (endlessly ...) and to drive files into FOCAL and BASIC
Anyway, I'd like to do the same thing in SIMH
(get the text file into Focal
and then save it as a Focal program). Is there any way to do this with SIMH?
Can I assign the text file to a paper tape reader, for example?
This should work fairly easily using the high speed paper tape peripherals of
SIMH. You can equip an output file for the punch, punch the "tape", then
equip that file for the reader, and I believe the asterisk command or some
such Focal feature will read it in. Save to disk, and you'll have your text
file converted.
Low speed paper tape on SIMH is more problematic, as you don't really have an
8 bit channel, flow control isn't implemented, etc. (At least on the console
that is shared with the SIMH command prompt.)
Vince from the command line as typed text.
Don