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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:12:25 +0200
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On 10/06/2024 13:31, Malcolm McLean wrote:

> My shell can mount a FileSystem.xml file as a filing system and use that 
> as backing store. No other shell can do that. That's why I need a shell. 
> Because a shell is effectively an editor for a filing system.
> 

If this is an essential feature for the shell you want to use, and it is 
worth the effort writing it and all the limitations your shell has 
compared to existing shells, fair enough.

Perhaps I am missing something, but I have yet to see a point in your 
"FileSystem.xml" in the first place, never mind a point in being able to 
treat it as a mounted filesystem where you can edit files directly. 
What does your shell give that a user could not do by unpacking the 
FileSystem.xml to a directory tree, working with the files using 
whatever tools they want, then packing them up again to a new version of 
the FileSystem.xml file?