<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Apr 2016, at 22:03, Ken Cornetet <<a href="mailto:Ken.Cornetet@kimballelectronics.com" class="">Ken.Cornetet@kimballelectronics.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">That is a great mechanism. But it has the HUGE disadvantage that it is very specific to the Altair emulator. It can’t be generalized to that it can be easily applied to all simh machines. And it requires (probably) guest OS modifications. And it still requires a user-land utility.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I’m just saying that if you extend this mechanism to those systems that do _NOT_ support Kermit, this mechanism could be a replacement for Kermit (with a userland file transfer tool for the guest OS), allowing you to easily transfer files back and forth between the guest and host.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>For the systems that DO support Kermit, there’s really no need for the mechanism.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If you want to go the block device route, you’d have to write file system emulators for every OS to get the FTP server to work..</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Sampsa</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>