From b268465a4853dcfb84d30a154484e42dbcff3e0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 07:18:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (MS-DOS and MULE): Clarify that this section is for the MS-DOS port only. --- man/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ man/msdog.texi | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog index f68e9bcdc8e..ec144071ba7 100644 --- a/man/ChangeLog +++ b/man/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-08-06 Eli Zaretskii + + * msdog.texi (MS-DOS and MULE): Clarify that this section is for + the MS-DOS port only. + 2005-07-30 Eli Zaretskii * makefile.w32-in (info): Don't run multi-install-info.bat. diff --git a/man/msdog.texi b/man/msdog.texi index a5aea27f161..af136266bd2 100644 --- a/man/msdog.texi +++ b/man/msdog.texi @@ -583,6 +583,12 @@ However, due to incompatibilities between MS-DOS/MS-Windows and other systems, there are several DOS-specific aspects of this support that you should be aware of. This section describes these aspects. + The description below is largely specific to the MS-DOS port of +Emacs, especially where it talks about practical implications for +Emacs users. For other operating systems, see the @file{code-pages.el} +package, which implements support for MS-DOS- and MS-Windows-specific +encodings for all platforms other than MS-DOS. + @table @kbd @item M-x dos-codepage-setup Set up Emacs display and coding systems as appropriate for the current @@ -721,7 +727,8 @@ DOS codepages for the same locale. For example, DOS codepage 850 supports the same character set as Windows codepage 1252; DOS codepage 855 supports the same character set as Windows codepage 1251, etc. The MS-Windows version of Emacs uses the current codepage for display -when invoked with the @samp{-nw} option. +when invoked with the @samp{-nw} option. Support for codepages in the +Windows port of Emacs is part of the @file{code-pages.el} package. @node MS-DOS Processes @section Subprocesses on MS-DOS -- 2.39.5