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I have been told that the NIST ATM simulator is among the best ATM simulators. Well it may be so, but it sure is difficult to install (because of lack of docs?); even after reading the INSTALL file and searching the Net for a solution.
Recently I had a chance to install it for someone and I faced some problems, for which I found a solution and the simulator is running successfully and IMHO I should atleast document it for the information of other ill informed ppl like me.
Well the instalation on GNU/ Linux is somewhat straight forward and is exactly as specified in the instalation procedure. But after instalation how do we execute it! On running the "sim" executable it will give some error and simply refuse to start.