ediff bug (?) in 21.2

Dear all, Unwittingly becoming a kind of beta-tester (win95 box, no build facilities, using Fabrice Popineau's XEmacs21.2.b14 binaries and distribution files), using only elementary facilities of XEmacs, I came across the following problem, (the same holds when I start XEmacs -vanilla): In XEmacs 21.2 "Dionysos" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Tue May 18 1999 on NEVERYON configured using `configure UNKNOWN' Through the menu: Comparing two buffers (.emacs and EMACS~1.NEW): which says: file or directory First two remarks on the misleading error message: it skips /'s and or \'s in the (temp)filename and omits the essential c:/ before cygnus. Superfluous that both files were present, so I thought something was terribly amiss deep down inside, BUT, Perhaps it has something to do with the names of the files, check that by renaming the EMACS~1.NEW to .joris ... and again ... ergo, twas in the name ahah. To be on the safe side: Copy [-p]: 1 file. .joris into EMACS~1.NJU (so creating two identical files!) This yielded the same kind of messages. Also comparing two files (and not buffers) gave the same kind of errors. I think it has something to do with the ~ in the filename, is it the 8.3 filenaming system?. A bug in XEmacs, in cygnus' diff, or, still, a beginners mistake in initialising XEmacs?? For that reason, could someone please provide me with an .emacs file that correctly identifies my keypad-keys, so that I can put (e.g.) cut, copy and paste under those keys. I tried many things, but none worked so far (e.g. what kind of /term/typefile.el can I (do I have to) use?) Thanks a lot (in advance, (also for XEmacs in general :-)) for your help; in any case, your gracious attention is much appreciated. Regards, Henk van Dorp -- (a.o.email: vandorp(a)ieee.org)