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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:29:36 +1100
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To:        John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: doscmd removal
Message-ID:  <20040314102936.GA23469@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <20040314052944.GA75355@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
References:  <20040314022615.GA21795@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20040314052944.GA75355@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>

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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



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