Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:34:06 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: avelino <fdasilva AT garfield DOT fe DOT up DOT pt>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djgpp and emacs
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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, avelino wrote:

> I recently install djgpp v2.01 in a i586 (just 30 minutes ago). It seems
> the gcc and gpc compilers are working and also bash and all the stuff
> installed in /bin. However I can=B4t run emacs that was installed in
> /bin/gnu/emacs/bin because I get this message:
> emacs: Cannot open termcap database file

Bash defines an environment variable TERM, and Emacs tries to use that=20
variable to find a termcap database which will tell it how to work=20
correctly with that type of display.  But since your machine doesn't have=
=20
such a database (most PCs don't), Emacs fails.  To work around this, just=
=20
undefine TERM before you invoke Emacs.  An improved version of `bash' is=20
available from Daisuke Aoyama's web pages which doesn't define TERM, so=20
you might consider upgrading.  I think the announcement of the new=20
version was posted here about a week ago.