From:	jaxonjr AT my-deja DOT com (jaxonjr)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: emacs: using url's
Date:	22 Dec 2000 15:35:34 GMT
Organization:	I don't think so.
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Eli Zaretskii:

>As its name indicates, w32-shell-execute is a function specific to the
>native Windows port of Emacs (a.k.a. NTEmacs).  It calls into the
>Win32 API, which is inaccessible for DJGPP programs.

>It is possible that, in this particular case, you can get away by
>writing a browse-url-browser-function which launches a browser via
>START.EXE (if I understand correctly what browse-url-browser-function
>is for).

>Gnus requires either built-in network support or a capability to
>launch asynchronous processes, neither of which is supported in the
>DJGPP port of Emacs.  If you really want to use Gnus on Windows,
>install NTEmacs (binaries are available from ftp.gnu.org)

That's pretty much what I thought. Thank you.

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