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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:34:53 -0700
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> Pepole will want the shell to go into FileSystem XML files, list the
> contents, and maybe extract or insert individual files. And so I've
> now
> put in a powerful ls command.
[...]

Which people, other than you, actually want that?  Do you have real
or potential users who desire that feature?

Windows can easily mount an ISO image file as a filesystem.
File Explorer can dive into a .zip file (by unpacking it into a
temporary directory).  Linux has sshfs and other tools that use
libfuse, a userspace filesystem framework.  Squashfs is a common way
to treat a single file as a filesystem.  There are other examples.
And they all give the user access to all the system tools available
for working with files and directories; none are restricted to
whatever facilities are provided by BabyX or some similar project.

If you're doing this just for the fun of it, that's great --
but you seem to be saying not just that others will find your XML
pseudo-filesystem useful, but that there's an existing demand for it.
I'm skeptical.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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