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Subject: Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows
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> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:38:58 -0800 (PST)
> From: Chetan Pandya <pandyacus@sbcglobal.net>
> Reply-To: pandyacus@sbcglobal.net
> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >
> > > Wouldn't it make more sense for it to be DOS_NT?
> > 
> > Not unless you show me a use case where multi-tty features
> > don't work
> > in the MS-DOS port of Emacs.  I have yet to see any Lisp
> > code that
> > wouldn't DTRT in the DOS port because of this.
> 
> I can show where it does not work if you can show me that DOS port can be built from the sources as they exist.

Yes, it can; see msdos/INSTALL.