Re: C:\_emacs not being read

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     > .emacs is the standard name for Emacs's user init file. _emacs has
>     > traditionally been additionally supported by the Windows port, because
>     > the FAT16 file system was unable to represent the true name, but noone
>     > uses FAT16 file systems anymore, and such use is deprecated.
>
> What versions of Windows used FAT16?  And are we sure no one uses them now?
> In many poor countries, lots of people use very old versions of Windows.
>   

Windows 95 supported FAT16 for upgrading from older 16 bit versions of
Windows, but it also supported FAT32 and came with a program you could
run to upgrade the filesystem in place. Support is probably still there,
since floppy disks often use FAT16, but it is rare to see a hard drive
formatted with it these days, even on old PCs since upgrading in place
is so easy.