[h-e-w] Regexp

[Jeff Rancier]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me why the following statement in my .emacs, make it die
when load on Windows 2000?

(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("makefile\\.\\(.*\\)" . makefile-mode)
auto-mode-alist))

I am using GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-*-nt5.0.2195) of Tue Jun 13 2000 on buffy

What I was trying to do was use makefile-mode for anyfile which started
with:

makefile.

Thanks,
Jeff