Command Line Emulator for ICT

[caffrey]

Is there such a thing as a Command Line emulator ? ICT curriculum is calling for cmd line access to do simple DIR and create files etc. but being a school the command line is blocked. In fairness I doubt there would be much they can do with it, but in the interests of not causing me more work an emulator would be great

[Steve21]

I don't know if it'll work if you want the folders to actually be created etc, but dosbox?

 

Steve

[unixman_again]

Cygwin?

[jthompson]

I'd have a thought a sandbox VM would be worth having, rather like the ones discussed in threads about Python coding. At least then they can run whatever recursive delete command they want without you having to worry about what they're up to.

 

Although, depending on what you have currently available, that might involve more work than you are looking for.

Edited January 15, 2018 by jthompson

[caffrey]

For python, they are using online interpreters which is working well (repl.it if I remember rightly) It would be nice to have a small portable exe that fakes a real command line with just the commands the curriculum needs which can be ran from a network share.

I'd write one myself but I don't have the time!

[caffrey]

I found this https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=https://bellard.org/jslinux/freedos.cfg&mem=64&graphic=1&w=720&h=400 which appears to work