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From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
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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.


Tim