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From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: RFC: doscmd removal
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:11:27PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Tim Robbins wrote:
> > I plan to remove doscmd from the base system for the sole reason that it
> > is no longer useful. Any objections?
> 
> Uh, don't do that.
> 
> Its quite useful.  I use it frequently.  It isn't broken.

Even assuming that it works perfectly (which it does not), do you honestly
believe that MS-DOS emulation is so widely useful that it needs to be in
the base system instead of the ports collection?


Tim