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. Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <4634-Fri22Dec2000171911+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> NNTP-Posting-Host: asoh3pp29.alltel.net (166.102.93.94) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 977499334 5908761 166.102.93.94 (16 [33304]) User-Agent: Xnews/03.11.14 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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. --