Re: *scratch* considered harmful

[Richard Stallman]

    I am surprised if it is Windows specific, it seems to be caused by the
    following change:

    2001-11-03  Richard M. Stallman  <address@hidden>

            * startup.el (fancy-splash-tail): Explain how to recover
            from a crash, if there was a crash.
            (command-line-1): Reorganize display of startup screen,
            to simplify the logic.  Use a temp buffer for it.

This change causes Emacs to display the start-up message using a
buffer named ` *temp*'.  I don't know what makes that visible to the
user.