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Re: Does service lookup by name work on Windows now?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Does service lookup by name work on Windows now?
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:55:53 +0200

> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 13:34:50 +0100
> 
> > Works on Windows 8.1, doesn't work on XP.  Which is to be expected,
> > given the contents of etc/services on each system.
> 
> XP has been end of life for 5 years.

We don't follow orders from Microsoft.  We still support Windows 9X,
let alone XP.

> Iʼd really like to remove that workaround, but I could leave it in,
> conditioned on (eq system-type 'windows-nt) or similar.

Conditioning is fine with me.  We could also look at

  (car (x-server-version))

It should be 5 or less for XP and older systems.



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