From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: C:\_emacs not being read Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:37:39 +0100 Message-ID: <466C7D33.7080606@gnu.org> References: <466B1895.6090709@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181515079 2444 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2007 22:37:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, shanks.n@gmail.com To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 11 00:37:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HxW2e-0006OX-VV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:37:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxW2e-00058O-Du for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:37:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxW2d-000582-9H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxW2b-00057W-7f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxW2b-00057T-3L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:37:45 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HxW2Z-000791-5d; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:37:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26990513A2; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:37:42 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15834 Archived-At: 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.