From: slanning AT buphy DOT bu DOT edu (Scott Lanning)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: EMACS under BASH
Date: 28 Nov 1998 03:02:47 GMT
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Flavio Poletti (poletti AT writeme DOT com) wrote:
: I succeeded in installing cyg-win32 and in running bash (I had an 'Out

What's cyg-win32? Is it part of djgpp?

: of environment' problem), and tried to start emacs only to get:
:         emacs: Cannot open termcap database file.

I'm not sure. You said you created many termcap files. Did you mean
actual termcaps, or just files named termcap? Termcap files are
fairly large. They hold information on just about every terminal.

: PS: Do you know somewhere to look for some help about bash? I couldn't
: even succeed in setting an environment variable!!!

I can send you the man pages from my system if you want. It's
large (250k), and you need something like "more" or "less" to read it.
There is probably a webpage somewhere with it also.
  To set environment variable from .bashrc, say, you do this:

  ENV_VAR='whatever'

then you have to export it to the shell:

  export ENV_VAR

--Scott