Subject: bug#12989: 24.3.50; buffer-file-type is not buffer-local

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:26:54 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Kazuhiro Ito <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:16:13 -0500
> 
> >> > This variable is meaningful on MS-DOG and Windows NT.
> >>                                  ~~~~~~
> > It's not a typo.
> 
> BTW, doesn't Emacs now run under Free Software compatible with
> "MS-DOS", right?

Probably.  I never tried that, so I cannot tell.

> If so, could we refer to this instead of MS-DOS/MS-DOG?

Its name is not MS-DOS.  It's FreeDOS.