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:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 1:37 PM
To: Ken Cornetet <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh


On 20 Apr 2016, at 20:26, Ken Cornetet 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 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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