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Re: Whatever Happened To Document-Centric Computing?

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On 12 Aug 2026 12:28:27 +0100 (BST)
Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> Nobody said RISC OS doesn't have a CLI.  Lawrence was talking about a
> Unix shell in the context of 'shell escaping', ie passing command
> lines through one program which launches another.
> 
> RISC OS doesn't have the model where one process is used to launch
> other processes; for one thing it doesn't have a process model.
> Programs are launched directly by the kernel, and if one program runs
> another then the first is replaced.
>
> [...]
> 
> Because there's no process mechanism according to the Unix model, the
> idea of a shell process for launching other programs (and passing
> command arguments) doesn't exist.  The native CLI does happen to be
> called ShellCLI but it's not a shell in the Unix model, it's merely a
> way to run one program at a time.  So Lawrence's concerns about
> escaping parameters aren't really relevant.
> 
> Theo

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

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