Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 03:15:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Jude T. DaShiell" To: Eli Zaretskii cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: termcap data base not found In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Thanks much Eli for that -nw switch! I found out why bash was returning bad command or file name. I thought I had placed c:\djgpp\bin in my path statement and found out it wasn't there after all. I also found out that under dos 7.10 there is a difference between set path= and path=. The second form actually works. Other problems I had but cleared up were I was trying to use himem.sys in config.sys and that doesn't work in win 9x computers. at least that and emm386.exe noems novcpi and dos=high,umb causes djgpp stuff to take computer into deep space when run that way. So for now I have only device=c:\windows\emm386.exe noems in config.sys for memory manager. I'll search faq file for this version of dos and optimize where possible. On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Jude Dashiell wrote: > > > I finally got emacs up and running with djgpp but emacs is doing direct > > screen writes. When I used set term=ansi before running emacs I got the > > error termcap data base not found and emacs exited. There is a > > termcap.src file under the etc directory. Should I compile it to termcap > > and if so what will compile termcap.src? We had gotten these problems > > solved a few years ago, but my hard drive died and wasn't backed up at the > > time. > > Would you believe if I told you that I have your own message from more > than 2 years ago, which explains how you did that, stashed away safely > in my archives? Well, I do; it is reproduced below. > > Don't forget to invoke Emacs with the -nw switch, so that it won't use > direct screen writes. > > > but bash doesn't run from the > > djgpp directory even with djgpp=c:\djgpp\djgpp.env set > > How do you mean ``bash doesn't run''? What exactly happens when you > try to invoke Bash? Do you invoke it from the command line or from > inside Emacs? If the latter, how did you configure Emacs to do that, > and what Emacs command did you use to invoke Bash? > > > so I'm thinking > > not all applications are finding djgpp.env and its contents or perhaps I > > have to update djgpp.env too. > > I don't think you should need to modify djgpp.env. I suggest to > describe every problem you have here before you go out and change > djgpp.env, because editing that file is an all too easy way of messing > your entire DJGPP installation beyond repair. > > > A final set up question, I once read a command on comp.os.msdos.djgpp > > which I used earlier that went out and found all installed info files and > > updated the dir. file for me. Does anyone know the command? > > The command is "install-info", but it cannot automatically loop on all > Info files you have; you need to invoke it separately for every such > file. > > However, I doubt that you should need that: the file info/DIR supplied > with djdev202.zip should already have an entry for every Info file > that you might get from one of the ported packages. > > Here's your message of yore which explains how to set up Emacs for > character terminal mode operation: > > > Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 16:53:35 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Jude DaShiell > > > > Finally figured how to get emacs 19.34 to connect with termcap.src. > > If anyone else can use the batch file > > in this message you're welcome to it! Understand I have everything > > in my disk setup that's djgpp in and below the > > d:\djgpp directory tree so if your system differs > > adjust accordingly. > > > > @echo off > > cls > > set djgpp=d:/djgpp/djgpp.env > > set termcap=d:/djgpp/gnu/emacs/etc/termcap.src > > set term=pcansi > > set path=d:\djgpp;d:\djgpp\bin;d:\djgpp\gnu\emacs\bin;%path% > -------------------- jude