From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, shanks.n@gmail.com
Subject: Re: C:\_emacs not being read
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:37:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466C7D33.7080606@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HxNJk-0005g4-0z@fencepost.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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-10 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-09 15:52 C:\_emacs not being read Shanks N
2007-06-09 21:16 ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-10 3:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-10 5:08 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-10 8:25 ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-10 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-10 22:46 ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-10 13:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-10 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-10 22:37 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
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