[Simh] Way out idea for simh

[Sampsa Laine]

> On 21 Apr 2016, at 00:56, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> This is not a "small" thing. This would be a huge effort if really wanted this to become ubiquitous. And I still fail to see the point. We've basically established that binary files will still not work, so we're down to text files. Why all these extra steps for something that can be done with already existing tools?
> 

Binary files COULD work if we store the file metadata in another file..

The structure of the metadata file would depend on the host OS but SIMH doesn’t have to care - it just sticks the stuff in the file and it’s up to the guest OSes transfer tool to create/interpret it.

You could also write tools for the host OS to create/view these metadata files..

But it’s non-trivial and probably not worth the effort.

Sampsa


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