Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:56:02 +0300
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:09:40 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> Should we sit on the current selector cleanup patch or commit it also?

I think it should be committed and we should ask people to build
applications (such as Make, RHIDE, and Bash) with it and test it in a
variety of environments.

However, I'd like to see that patch changed so that plain DOS systems
aren't affected at all.  Why slow down systems which don't need that?
We already have the _windows_major variable that can be used to easily
test for whether we are on Windows, and _get_dos_version(1) can be
used for NT/W2K/XP.