From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: DOS versions [was Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el] Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:37:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83vc0dcq6e.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383241032 8062 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2013 17:37:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:37:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, darren.hoo@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 31 18:37:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VbwBH-0006uF-5c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:37:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58613 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbwBG-0005ww-Ok for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:37:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45217) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbwBC-0005wp-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:37:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbwBA-0007Lp-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:32905) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbwBA-0007Ll-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbwB9-0003Uu-Je; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:37:07 -0400 X-Spook: Mantis ICE Al-Qaeda UOP USCODE Tony Blair Bellcore CESID X-Ran: io'$$zOB$/VFR_J>Nq+eH5w5%sg7u!&TM)=fP\SD73S9@jWxf\ph?h9JFM'E~kO[g:[yIl X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83vc0dcq6e.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:20:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164739 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > "MS-DOS" is not a specific system, it's a family of systems (which > includes FreeDOS, but is not limited to it). I see no reason to > include in the manual a list of all the systems in that family, > certainly not at this time. I think there would be some minor utility in listing in msdos/README exactly which systems Emacs is supported under. Is FreeDOS one of those? Ref eg http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2012-11/msg01166.html BTW, anyone know if FreeDOS considered free software by the FSF these days? Ref eg http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00009.html (from several years ago, so quite likely to be outdated)