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On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 21:46:34 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D=E2=80=99Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> > There's no shell because RISC OS doesn't have shells. =20
>=20
> You don=E2=80=99t have a =E2=80=9Cshell=E2=80=9D, but you still have to p=
ass command lines
> around as though a shell were involved.
>=20
> Does the phrase =E2=80=9Cworst of both worlds=E2=80=9D come to mind ... ?

I'm not sure where the idea that RISC OS doesn't have a CLI comes from,
it most certainly does. As regards the original question, per the docs
for OS_GetEnv the command line is passed in as a whole null-terminated
string.