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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 10:24:56PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Tim Robbins wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> This sounds like a good candidate for something to be done in 6.0,
> leaving it 5.x for an appropriate deprecation period.
> 
> I mean, my understanding is that 5 is supposed to be the new
> STABLE in ... what, just a few weeks, anyways?

That seems reasonable - I will wait until 6.0 then.


Tim