From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please install this doc change for me. Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:55:11 +0300 Message-ID: <831sg089sg.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522515233 13230 195.159.176.226 (31 Mar 2018 16:53:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:53:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 31 18:53:49 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f2JlE-0003LA-PJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:53:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36929 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2JnI-0001Zz-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37028) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2Jmd-0001YV-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2JmZ-0001xu-I2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:55:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2JmZ-0001xm-ER; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2903 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f2JmY-0005XT-2V; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:55:10 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:36:15 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224207 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:36:15 -0400 > > > --- a/doc/emacs/msdos.texi > > +++ b/doc/emacs/msdos.texi > [...] > > + MS-Windows is a non-free operating system; that means it denies its > > This is the manual for the "MS-DOS" version of Emacs, not the MS-Windows > version, AFAIK. No, most of it is about MS-Windows, the file-name notwithstanding. (MS-DOS peculiarities are described in msdos-xtra.texi.) > PS: Wondering if it might also work under DOSBox. AFAIK, it does, see https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Software. But I never tried neither FreeDOS nor DOSBox, so I don't know how stable the DOS Emacs is in these environments.