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

[Robert Pluim]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 13:05:26 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > How would one check if this works or doesn't work?
>> 
>> If 
>> 
>> (open-network-stream "foo" nil "imap.gmail.com" "imaps")
>> 
>> works, it works. If it complains about 'service not found' or similar,
>> it doesnʼt.
>
> 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. Iʼd really like to remove that
workaround, but I could leave it in, conditioned on (eq system-type
'windows-nt) or similar.

Robert