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Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/02/04/03:59:33

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:58:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: An Thi-Nguyen Le <anle AT students DOT uiuc DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34
In-Reply-To: <199802040223.SAA05028@adit.ap.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980204105808.25149E-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> This sounds familiar. I think the problem was that the Emacs archive on
> Simtelnet was not LFN-clean.

The Emacs distribution *is* LFN-clean.  The problem here is that the
user machine is not ``SFN-clean'', so to speak (numeric tails are
turned on).

> I think a related problem was caused by having an environment variable
> called `TERM' set. To work around, unset it.

No, in that case Emacs prints an explicit error message which doesn't
get erased from the display, so you get a hint.

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