looading locally modified files.el breaks M-x mail on windows

[Chris Mooooore]

I was trying to report an Emacs bug recently when I found that M-x
report-emacs-bug was causing an error.  After a lot of tracing I
found that the problem was that I was doing a (load-library "files")
from my .emacs, and even though that was picking up the system-wide
files.el, it was breaking my ability to compose email.

The problem turned out to be that loading files.el redefines the
convert-standard-filename function to do nothing other than return
its argument.  After re-loading files.el I need to re-load w32-fns.el
as well, since that redefines the function to work on windows.

I would like to be able to copy files.el locally, modify it, and load
it from my .emacs, but if I do that, I also have to load w32-fns from
my .emacs.


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2003-04-22 on CHRISLAP
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.2)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENG
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

PS. I've since forgotten what the real bug I wanted to submit was.  But 
at least now the next time it bothers me I can submit it!