Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:17:53 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Jim Schlough" <jschlough AT wi DOT rr DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 02:47:35 GMT
> 
> I type emacs at the DOS prompt
> 
> When I run emacs, I get all kinds of funny characters (escape sequence like)
> looking things.

Please post here an example of these funny characters.

> I'm trying to find out what might be a good term setting?

If you have the TERM environment variable set to something, then unset
it.  The ported Emacs has its own internal terminal emulator, but if
you set TERM to something, that emulator cannot kick in.