Does Carbon Emacs ignore ~/.emacs ?

[BK]

Hi

I am trying to get ILISP working with *Carbon* Emacs (21.1.30) under
OSX.

This involves (amongst other things) to put some load instructions
into ~/.emacs but I have my doubts that Carbon Emacs even bothers to
look at the file.

Is there anything I need to do to get Carbon Emacs to recognise
~/.emacs ?

Yes, I know there is XEmacs, but I do not wish to use it nor do I wish
to discuss why I don't want to use it. Carbon Emacs is therefore the
focus of this question.

tia
rgds
bk