From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: newsticker-*.el files Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:44:00 +0100 Message-ID: <484C6EC0.8010703@harpegolden.net> References: <200806082201.m58M142d000380@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212968680 24746 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2008 23:44:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:44:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulf Jasper , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 09 01:45:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K5UZb-00036l-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:45:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56996 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5UYn-000841-UY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:44:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5UYi-00083q-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:44:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5UYg-00083R-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:44:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33361 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5UYg-00083O-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:57229) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5UYZ-00052X-5O; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from golden1.harpegolden.net (unknown [86.45.4.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143D38321; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:44:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080509) In-Reply-To: <200806082201.m58M142d000380@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98737 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > Why not do the renaming work at the time when the DOS platform is > brought back to life? Well, there's always freedos http://www.freedos.org/ ''' Most FreeDOS programs are distributed under the GNU General Public License ("GNU GPL"). ''' No I don't really think emacs should worry too much about MSDOS support all the same, but DOS-compatibles are still hanging about in embedded computing, POS and various legacy business systems etc. (and of course emulation). Note that FreeDOS is an install option with Dell PCs, too. (probably mostly so that they ship with _some_ minimal OS to thumb their nose at Microsoft's "naked PC" campaign, but still) http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/e510_nseries FreeDOS and DRDOS must pretty much have the market between them now that MS have abandoned MSDOS. :-)