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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:49:49 +1100
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RFC: doscmd removal
Message-ID:  <20040314034949.GA22121@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <20040313221049.P40141@sasami.jurai.net>
References:  <20040314022615.GA21795@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20040313221049.P40141@sasami.jurai.net>

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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



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