From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MSDOS support Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:41:39 +0300 Message-ID: References: <200807310717.m6V7HvQk016586@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <4eb0089f0807310516y7a77c3cfp2aff7d84311274ca@mail.gmail.com> <87zlnxtdkw.GNU's_Not_Unix!%yavor@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217583753 31542 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 09:42:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yavor Doganov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 01 11:43:22 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 1KOrAI-0005UP-Eg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:43:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54517 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOr9N-0004uD-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:42:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOr9G-0004sT-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:42:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOr9F-0004q0-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51812 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOr9E-0004pW-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]:59324) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOr8l-0005A4-Kp; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.228.238]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K4X00IFI1LMA8J0@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:41:47 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87zlnxtdkw.GNU's_Not_Unix!%yavor@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:101852 Archived-At: > From: Yavor Doganov > Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:10:55 +0300 > > David Robinow wrote: > > > > Hey, watch your mouth. Who says DOS is proprietary? > > See http://www.freedos.org/ > > Some small parts of FreeDOS are proprietary, but the system cannot > work without them Which ones are those? These 2 URLs http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=General_Information/363 http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=Using_FreeDOS/7 seem to say that the OS is under GPL. If you mean the 4DOS shell, then it is not necessary to have a fully functional system, since there's a very good port of Bash that can be used in its stead.