Half of the commands don't require much more than an alias in fdauto.bat, so I guess it isn't of much use even if when it doesn't segfault.
On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 18:22, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Tom suggested in another message thread the removal of MiniBox from the > release media. > > I had never used it. So, I gave it a quick try. > > I though it was a sort of command shell. But, that does not appear to be the > case. > > It seems to be a wrapper for several Linux commands. > > Minibox Commands: > > beep > cat > cd > clear > cp > date > echo > ls > mkdir > mv > help > pwd > rm > rmdir > sh > time > > Most of these have FreeDOS equivalents and are not needed. > > Usage is basically “minibox ls”, to perform the ls command. > > A bigger issue is many commands did not work under RC2. > > For example, “sh” and several other commands generate the following output in > VirtualBox: > > C:\>minibox sh > Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV > Page fault at eip=00004240, error=0004 > eax=000ba9c0 ebx=000ba990 ecx=00000007 edx=00000000 esi=00000000 edi=00004180 > ebp=000ba428 esp=000ba3e0 program=C:\UTIL\MINIBOX\EN\MINIBOX.EXE > cs: sel=00a7 base=00400000 limit=000bffff > ds: sel=00af base=00400000 limit=000bffff > es: sel=00af base=00400000 limit=000bffff > fs: sel=008f base=00007d20 limit=0000ffff > gs: sel=00bf base=00000000 limit=0010ffff > ss: sel=00af base=00400000 limit=000bffff > App stack: [000ba498..0003a498] Exceptn stack: [0003a3d4..00038494] > > Call frame traceback EIPs: > 0x00004240 > C:\>logger > > This also occurs under T2411. > > Since I did not have an instance of FreeDOS 1.3 in VirtualBox, I did not try > the program under that OS version. > > Regardless, I propose removing MiniBox from the install media. > > Please let us all know your opinion on its removal. > > Thanks, > > Jerome > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
