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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:57:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: doscmd removal
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403141357170.7997-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040314102936.GA23469@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Tim Robbins wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 07:29:44AM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:26:15PM +1100, Tim Robbins wrote:
> > > I plan to remove doscmd from the base system for the sole reason that it
> > > is no longer useful. Any objections?
> > 
> > Why would you want to remove it? It is still very usefull. I use it
> > regularly. The only drawback currently is that the Makefile is set
> > up in such a way that it does not pick up X during a "make world",
> > so after a "make world" you have to build it again to pick up X.
> > Built without X it is less usefull.
> 
> Because MS-DOS emulation is not widely useful in 2004, at least not
> enough to be needed in the base system. But I have already said that
> I will now wait until FreeBSD 6 before considering removing doscmd,
> so there's no point arguing over this anymore right now.


we can argue about it then..



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