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| | Overview of CommandShell (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | It lacks some elements of Unix shell syntax, and does not provide terminal emulation, but it adds some nice Smalltalk enhancements such as a text editor which works in a command pipeline, and the ability to evalute Smalltalk expressions in a command pipeline with unix commands. |
 | | In the case of a traditional command-line interface, such as a Unix shell, the command is usually the name of a program, and the modifiers are parameters passed to the program to influence its behavior. |
 | | Once the command proxy pipeline has been created, the individual process proxies are evaluated in such a way that they appear to execute in parallel, with each proxy reading its input from a pipe connected to its predecessor in the pipeline, and writing its output to a pipe connected to its successor in the pipeline. |
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