SIMH question

Someone should write the SIMH equivalent of Ersatz-11's 'DOS device' (which allows the -11 access to the file system on the host - and also the ability to send arbitrary commands to the emulator). I find it mind-bogglingly useful for going round the edit-compile loop, while using a good editor (Epsilon for me) on the host OS. Having written a Unix driver for the device, I have a sack of Unix commands that use it, e.g. to retrieve the file foo.c from the host, I just say 'hrd foo.c' to the PDP-11 Unix's shell, and it's there. Super-painless, and does't add any noticeable amount of time/work to going around the loop. I don't need to give the full file name since there's also 'hcd <dir>'. To change the switch register contents, 'sc <value>'. Etc, etc. How all you SIMH users manage without it is beyond me. Luckily I only need -11 emulation, so I don't have to put up with life without it - and would refuse to. If anyone is seriously interested in adding it to SIMH, there's an -11 device spec available; I strongly suggest using the same spec; then for Unix, at least, all the -11 code (driver, user commands) is already done. Noel