Re: Emulators etc

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Paul,
≪ First, do emulators allow access to the underlying file system of
the operating system on which they are running? Ie If I run XY in an
emulator can I load text files from the underlying file system and
then save them back to that system?≫
Yes and no. Apps running in emulators do have access to the
underlying file system; the problem is that, on a Mac for example,
there is nothing corresponding to c:\ -- directories and partitions
follow entirely different naming conventions than in the DOS world.
Any good emulator will deliver with a 'patch' to get round this. On a
Mac, what you have to do is "mount a drive" so the emulator can refer
to it by a name it understands; once, it has a name the emulator can
deal with, then apps running in the emulator can 'see' the file
system, with the usual read/write operations.