[Simh] Way out idea for simh

[Sampsa Laine]

> On 21 Apr 2016, at 01:00, Sampsa Laine <sampsal at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 21 Apr 2016, at 00:56, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> Binary files COULD work if we store the file metadata in another file..
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> The structure of the metadata file would depend on the host OS but SIMH doesn’t

I meant the guest OS determines the structure of the metadata. SIMH just knows that it goes into an associated file, just like the resource forks in “netatalk” - the UNIX box running the AFP server doesn’t give a crap, it just stores the extra Mac OS stuff in another file.

sampsa


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