Re: Command Line Versus Command Line

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

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Those old DEC systems tended to have more complex syntax for their
commands than what is supported by your typical *nix command-line
program.

I remember the PIP (peripheral interchange program). About all I remember is
that is was complex. About all I remember is that is was complex.

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So Microsoft’s recent rediscovery that “the command line is cool”
remains hampered by this brain-dead underlying architecture. The
requirement that most if not all process creation has to be mediated
by some command-line “shell”...

You sure about that?

   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/creating-processes

...makes it quite clumsy to emulate the kind
of multi-process pipelines that are all in a day’s work on a Linux or
other *nix system. It also leads to some interesting security
vulnerabilities.

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