Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: michael@cadilhac.name (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl?= Cadilhac)
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:41:46 +0200
>> 
>> >> I suppose it's not important.
>> >
>> > ?? Why not?
>> 
>> Because nobody replied :-)
>
> Yeah, and you waited the whole two days!  Geez, can't those bozos
> reply right away?

Where are those guys using Emacs on MS-DOS hiding, anyway ? :-P  (He,
mind the smileys !)

> I didn't track this longish discussion.  If you can explain what you
> are trying to do with emacs-version, and why you are bothered by how
> many parts it has, I could try helping you.

I just have to prefix `topic' by the emacs-version, with build number
stripped.

So IIUC, I should make MS-DOS a special case, for both the prefixing and
`pretest-p', the predicate set to t if there are 4 numbers in
`emacs-version'.

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