From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David Robinow" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MSDOS support Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:16:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4eb0089f0807310516y7a77c3cfp2aff7d84311274ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <200807310717.m6V7HvQk016586@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 1217506630 32301 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2008 12:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:17:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 31 14:17:59 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 1KOX6U-00010n-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:17:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOX5a-0007KN-3O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOX5G-0007Ih-FO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOX5C-0007I7-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35324 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOX5C-0007I4-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.243]:24021) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOX5C-0005aU-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k29so544300rvb.6 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:16:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=n6ImpO+LtfGa2CUHGq8kR8t63V8N+3f3vIwayXO6DIk=; b=qVdyZuMT4VM86D9Z5+BQyBtQAayqGfT3izav27Vl5OIG0YfM0ejpkYjyO3xO8XNlzc wW9/q0zmtE2pZpJ8+5kode/es+oD6JEXpOLsUcc6ASbZMUirL4AzHvaNH2eca4CR+TBi MdZS+1I7RVNxRxxCMk62O4/ZNrF5fqB9sBaeY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=P0qDZJ/O0SUlEdwi29I8TK77p3LVMOKy/wHFG0m57z9YAX9hIjy1Ic1plDir6+qKwZ uoWksZ4e8vQgqXplvLgbzxJK57LBsp3G2H+/3G01EbwN6hiiFA1xdilyPfgvS/WwAk+Q Xsq+VOBfalA69ghKAmHT/Jvyve8pGJqKED9Ug= Original-Received: by 10.114.196.1 with SMTP id t1mr9981174waf.80.1217506597251; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:16:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.154.2 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:16:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200807310717.m6V7HvQk016586@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:101789 Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: >... > Wouldn't it be a good idea to remove the MSDOS support? > > The main reason is that there is no evidence that there are any emacs > users still using this proprietary platform. Hey, watch your mouth. Who says DOS is proprietary? See http://www.freedos.org/ (I have no idea if any version of emacs runs on FreeDos.) Back to reality: Dump MSDOS support. Point DOS users (if there are any) to the last version that actually works.