Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:32:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com>
Reply-To: kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com
To: ph DOT tan AT bj DOT col DOT co DOT cn
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Can't run emacs under bash!
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On Sat, 11 Oct 1997 ph DOT tan AT bj DOT col DOT co DOT cn wrote:

> Hi, djgpp gurus,
> 
> Emacs 19.34 runs perfectly at DOS prompt, but under bash , it 
> refuses to run by giving the following complaint:
> 
> emacs: Cannot open termcap database file.
> 
> What's the matter? 
> 

Bash set the TERM environment variable and this confuses emacs into
thinking that it needs to look in the termcap database to find
terminal characteristics and control descriptions.  Just unset TERM.

Art S. Kagel, kagel AT bloomberg DOT com