Re: Do we still need MSDOS support?

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

MSDOS works 16 bit but DJGPP works on 32bit.

gnuplot no longer works on 16bit MSDOS but works on MSDOS with DJGPP extention.

#ifdef MSDOS
is for now MSDOS with DJGPP.

I myself do not use MSDOS any longer but l do think that it is the time to kill MSDOS.

Recently Bastian pushed a commit for MSDOS with DJGPP.

[1eb149] by  Bastian Maerkisch

Extend support for "set encoding locale" on non-Windows systems

The Windows locale code also applies to DJGPP/MSDOS. Add a few more
explicit checks for other systems. Move the relevant code from misc.c|h
and winmain.c|h to encoding.c|h.

Tatsuro

--- gnuplot-beta
> A possibly foolish question from someone far outside the DOS/Windows world...
> 
> Many places in the gnuplot code are marked
> #ifdef MSDOS ...
> 
> I thought that MSDOS referred to 16-bit legacy code that we
> no longer support.  Maybe I am mistaken.
> 
> Who/what needs this code?
> Should the test be replaced by a test for _WIN32 instead?
> 
> Maybe or maybe not the same question-
> 
> Can we get rid of the macros HUGE  and GPFAR?
> Can we get rid of GP_FARMALLOC?
> 
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