Appendix G Emacs and MS-DOS
This section briefly describes the peculiarities of using Emacs under
the MS-DOS “operating system” (also known as “MS-DOG”). If you
build Emacs for MS-DOS, the binary will also run on Windows 3.X, Windows
NT, Windows 9X/ME, Windows 2000, or OS/2 as a DOS application; the
information in this chapter applies for all of those systems, if you use
an Emacs that was built for MS-DOS.
Note that it is possible to build Emacs specifically for Windows NT/2K
or Windows 9X/ME. If you do that, most of this chapter does not apply;
instead, you get behavior much closer to what is documented in the rest
of the manual, including support for long file names, multiple frames,
scroll bars, mouse menus, and subprocesses. However, the section on
text files and binary files does still apply. There are also two
sections at the end of this chapter which apply specifically for the
Windows version.
