From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: C:\_emacs not being read Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:57:19 +0300 Message-ID: References: <466B1895.6090709@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181501849 28512 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2007 18:57:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:57:29 +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 Sun Jun 10 20:57:28 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 1HxSbP-00072l-EN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:57:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxSbO-0000kb-Vp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:57:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxSbN-0000kV-0N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:57:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxSbK-0000kJ-MH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:57:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxSbK-0000kG-G6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HxSbI-0003A7-Jr; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-0-63.inter.net.il [84.228.0.63]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id GYG46106 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:57:21 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:18:52 -0400) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:15828 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: jasonr@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, shanks.n@gmail.com > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:18:52 -0400 > > > .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? I'm not sure whether FAT16 is still used, but I think .emacs is supported as a file name even on FAT16. The limitation that a file cannot have a leading dot was lifted with the introduction of VFAT (a.k.a. LFN) feature in Windows 95, and FAT16 supports VFAT. Windows 95 is the oldest version of Windows supported by NTEmacs, so systems that don't have VFAT cannot run NTEmacs anyway. They need to run the DOS port, which uses _emacs exclusively.