Re: Initialisation of dired-x for install-info guessing

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vincent_Bela=EFche?= <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:04:38 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 2) On the issue of supporting older versions of Window: I am afraid that this 
> is not possible if you want a DOS command. I don't think that there is any 
> simple way to extract the dirname with a one-liner command in older DOS 
> versions.

Perhaps you could simply chdir to that directory when running the
command.  Then there would be no need to name the directory
explicitly.  But I didn't try that, so I may be missing something.

> I am not sure how to disntiguish Windows version from within Emacs.

You can look at the value of `system-configuration'.