Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:11:29 +0100
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> > CC:  address@hidden,  address@hidden, 
> >  address@hidden
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:29:43 +0100
> > > > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> > > > Cc: address@hidden, Emacs Devel <address@hidden>,
> > > >         Mathias Dahl <address@hidden>
> > > >
> > > > That is because no one has had the time to rewrite that part.
> > > >
> > > > Reading that part I also found that it is about running DOS processes on 
> > > > MS Windows. I suggest that we rename to to reflect this.
> > > What version of which manual are you reading?  In the CVS version (and
> > > the one distributed with the pretest), the MS-Windows part _was_
> > > rewritten, and the node's name is "Windows processes".
> >
> > The CVS version.
>
> Then please explain what places did you want to be changed to talk
> about Windows as opposed to DOS.  I really think the rewrite you were
> asking for was done already, but maybe I missed some places when I did
> that.


I think the original poster has explained now what he missed there. I 
would suggest adding that and pushing much of the current node into a 
subnode about DOS subprocesses. This material might still be valuable, 
but it is not that common to use DOS subprocesses any more I guess.