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From: Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:14:09 +0100
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On 10/06/2024 14:19, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> 
> Well that's a way of doing it. But it's pretty inconvenient. The shell 
> lets you edit a FileSystem, XML file in place. Then of course I've got 
> to test bbx_filesystem.c very rigorously because it must work, it's the 
> heart of BabyXFS. So by writing the shell, I flush out any problems with 
> it.
> 
> And of course now the fun part of the project comes in. I add MiniBasic 
> to the shell, so you can run basic programs from it.
> 

I'd expect to run ksh commands from within ksh, bash commands from 
within bash, etc.

I wouldn't expect a filesystem to be part of the shell at all.





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