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Notice the new options? Now type shell, then RETURN, and you will be greeted with the familiar # prompt. You are now running a standalone shell on the floppy. A few reminders here: a floppy filesystem is not able to hold much data, and many common utilities are unavailable. When dealing with the standalone shell, one must learn alternatives to these utilities. For example, echo * can replace ls(1), and cat > file can serve as a poor replacement to ed(1). One must become remarkably resourceful when working in an environment as restricted as this. We will see later how we can enhance this confined environment with additional tools.

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