--- a/etc/MSDOS	Mon Aug 13 09:24:19 2007 +0200
+++ b/etc/MSDOS	Mon Aug 13 09:25:29 2007 +0200
@@ -1,63 +1,6 @@
-XEmacs does not yet work under MSDOS.  If you would be interested in
-porting XEmacs to MSDOS, please contact Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org>.
-
-The following information applies to FSF Emacs, not to XEmacs.
-
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-This file describes use of Emacs 19 on MS-DOG.
-
-* The commands `mode25' and `mode4350' change the number of 
-lines of the screen.  You get 43 lines on an EGA monitor, 50 on
-a VGA monitor.
-
-* Ctrl-Break takes the place of C-g.  Using compilers prior to
-djgpp 1.11 maint 5, you should not use Ctrl-Break unless you
-run under DPMI (i.e., you are using Windows, Qdpmi, ...)
-
-Actually, if Emacs is in an endless loop, you might as well go
-ahead and try.  Usually it works, but sometimes Emacs crashes
-with a stack trace.  This is not an Emacs bug.
-
-* Character codes 0200-0237 are self-inserting.
-
-* The keyboard support is made as X-like as possible.  This means
-that events like M-S-f1 will be generated (by Shift + Alt + f1).
-
-* Mouse support is partially implemented.
-
-* The `compile' command works on MS-DOG, but it waits for the
-compilation to finish before letting you edit again.  There's no other
-way to do it, given the lack of asynchronous processes.
+XEmacs does not work under MSDOS.  If you would be interested in porting
+XEmacs to MSDOS, please contact Steve Baur <steve@altair.xemacs.org>.
 
-* The function `expand-file-name' maps upper case letters to lower
-case letters, since MS-DOG does not distinguish.
-
-* The new buffer-local variable `buffer-file-type' controls whether a
-file contains text (newlines will be written as CR+LF) or binary data
-(newlines written as LF).  Text is specified by nil, and binary by t.
-The status of a buffer can be seen in the mode line as "T:" or "B:"
-before the major mode.
-
-Normally `buffer-file-type' is set automatically from the variable
-`file-name-buffer-file-type-alist' which is an alist mapping regexps
-to file types.
-
-You can visit a file explicitly as text, or as binary, using the
-commands `find-file-binary' and `find-file-text'.
-
-* New variables `binary-process-input' and `binary-process-output'
-control whether temporary files are opened as binary or as text
-files.  nil means text, and t means binary.  The difference is
-translation of CR+LF to LF and C-z handling.
-
-* Environment variables "HOME", "EMACSPATH", "TERM", "SHELL",
-"USER", "NAME", and "TZ" are given default values as suitable
-for a single user system.  See src/msdos.c for details.
-
-* The function `substitute-in-file-name' disregards case in
-environment variables, as the MS-DOG SET command does.
-
-* The variable `msdos-shells' contains a list of commands that
-are shells.  This variable is used to convert to map Unix-like
-commands like "$SHELL -c /some/command" to MS-DOG commands
-like "$SHELL /c \some\command".
+As of 20.1 the old Emacs files have been removed from the XEmacs
+distribution.  Interested parties should probably grab updated versions
+from a current Emacs distribution.