Re: elisp question

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     The line I don't think I understand is
>
>     (and (fboundp 'start-process) 0)
>
> I think that will always be 0, nowadays.  However, in the past there
> were platforms on which asynch subprocesses did not work, and
> start-process was not defined on those platforms.
>   

Well, this code was added on Jan 15 1996, to deal with MS-DOS printing.

If MS-DOS plataform is no more supported, this code could be changed.