# ReactOS Development Update: Shell and Emergency Management Services

DevFeed: [ReactOS Development Update: Shell and Emergency Management Services](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/newsletter-99-32965.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-99/>)

Published: 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Shell](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shell.md>), [GUI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gui.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [Kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kernel.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [gui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gui.md>), [kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kernel.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/report.md>), [shell](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shell.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

This ReactOS development update reports progress on the shell, including explorer_new directory browsing and work to understand and implement shell menu classes. It also describes work on Emergency Management Services, which provides serial-port access to a kernel command prompt without requiring working video, keyboard, or mouse drivers.

## Source excerpt

ShellSince the last newsletter Giannis Adamopoulos has completed his development contract and while a more formal report will be published later, a brief summary follows. The fruits of his labor are already visible in that explorer_new can actually start in ReactOS and allow a user to browse the directories. Much of this was achieved by completing work Andrew Hill started. Giannis also spent considerable amounts of time trying to understand how the various menus in the shell worked.