From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: "shell" command in DJGPP Emacs?
Date: 8 Oct 2002 08:48:20 GMT
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp daniel gerard mcgrath <dmcg6174 AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> Hi.  I use the DJGPP version of Emacs under DOS (Windows 98).  I am
> trying to figure out, how do you get a sort of "M-x shell" command,
> where you type in successive DOS commands?

M-x shell and similar commands, i.e. anything where you type live
command input to some other program into an emacs window, cannot work
on DOS.  DOS *is* a single-tasking operating system, after all. 
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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