[Simh] Making tape/disk images

[Vince Mulhollon]

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 08:35:35AM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote:
> Hmm.. this comes up so often, it might be nice to make an
> addition to simh to make this easier.  What if, for example,
> you could name a directory as a tape image, and it would make
> pretend the files (in some predetermined order, either in order
> of enumeration or perhaps in some sorted filename order) appeared
> sequentially on the tape. It wouldn't have the full generality of
> a tape image, but it would be very convenient to use:  just move
> a file into the tape dir on the host and then access the tape
> form the guest.

Basically a linux FUSE file system.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=ArchiveFileSystems

Except instead of making a directory dynamically into a RAR or zip or
whatever, it makes a dectape or rx8e or whatever.