Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 20:40:41 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:07:34 -0500
> 
> > Perhaps we should discuss this first here.  Could you (or someone else
> > in the know) please describe what happened before MSDOS was removed,
> > which was the reason for the removal?
> 
> I don't remember exactly why. I can only remember it had something
> to do with not polluting the namespace. But -ansi will take care of
> that, so I no longer see a problem getting it in.

Then I guess we could revisit this if the GCC maintainers for some
reason won't agree to its reintroduction.