Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:10:56 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "G.W. Owen" <mad14 AT cc DOT keele DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: newbie needs help configuring emacs
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On 7 Apr 1997, G.W. Owen wrote:

> My copy of emacs works fine under
> DOS and Windows 3.11, but under bash.exe, it complains that it cannot find
> the termcap (it doesn't exist) unless I unset the 'term' variable.
> Is this the only workaround?

No.  Get the latest port of `bash' it doesn't set TERM automatically.

Alternatively, you could add the empty TERM setting into the [emacs]
section of your DJGPP.ENV, like so:

[emacs]
TERM=

This way, only Emacs gets the empty TERM value.