Other than the OS on the old Atari 800 family of computers, I don’t know of any OS that supports a device to which you can supply a file name and then read or write data.
Most OSes view disk devices as a collection of blocks. From: Sampsa Laine [mailto:sam...@mac.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 1:37 PM To: Ken Cornetet <ken.corne...@kimballelectronics.com> Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh On 20 Apr 2016, at 20:26, Ken Cornetet <ken.corne...@kimballelectronics.com<mailto:ken.corne...@kimballelectronics.com>> wrote: Kermit is not available/usable for every guest OS under simh. Fair enough. I do not understand what you mean by a block device that points at a directory on the host OS. OK, so instead of an FTP server, you have a special device that a guest OS program can use to access the host OS. Let’s call this device HOST0: and you’d have something like this is in the .ini file: attach HOST0: /home/foobar/simhdir
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