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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 11:59:19 +0100
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I'm writing a shell in pure ANSI C, that oerates on FileSystem XML files.

So it's a great amount of fun. The BBXFS shell.

Except a real shell runs external programs. Which I have to do to all 
you to edit text files. Because a shell is no good if you can't edit 
text files easily, and theres no way of doing that in pure C due to the 
limitations of stdin.

So I just call system with nano. And it works. But it's hardly robust, 
and I'd like to get this right.

Check out the shell at

https://github.com/MalcolmMcLean/babyxrc
-- 
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