keep in repo remove from media +1

On Mon, 2025-02-17 at 12:20 -0500, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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