Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 16:03:34 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: EMACS "operating under Windows"
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Ralph Proctor wrote:

> I keep running into the phrase "when you are operating under Windows" like
> "when you are debugging under windows"
> 
> EMACS works perfectly as far as I can tell (there is even an icon) from
> Windows 3.11. But I thought this was really working "under DOS" in this
> case. Not so????

I'm not sure what are you asking here.  Are you bothered whether when
the Emacs manual talks about ``Windows'' it applies to MS-Windows as
well?  If so, then it generally does.  Where there are differences,
the manual specifically mentions MS-Windows.  If some Windows-related
feature doesn't work as advertised, that's a bug, either in Emacs or
in the docs; so please report it (see the chapter "Reporting Bugs" in
the manual).

If there's something else that you wanted to ask about this, please
explain it.

> I always thought there were "Windows" programs and DOS programs that run
> under DOS but just as a convenience can be called up from Windows--this may
> not be so.

It is indeed not quite so.  Emacs on Windows supports several features
that are unavailable on plain DOS (like the Windows clipboard).