From: Dave Pearson <davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: newbie needs help configuring emacs
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 08:33:41 GMT
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On 7 Apr 1997 18:42:47 GMT, G.W. Owen <mad14 AT cc DOT keele DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:

> Well heres a different one then.  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?

I solved this problem by adding the following to $DJDIR/DJGPP.ENV:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
[emacs]
TERM=
SHELL=c:/bin/bash -login
----------------------------------------------------------------------

As you can see I also set the SHELL so that I get exactly what I want
when I suspend emacs. 

The other possibility would be to add something like the following
to ~/[._]profile:

function emacs()
{
   ( unset TERM;emacs $* )
}

That's off the top of my head and I've not tested it, but I use
something similar in a different situation under bash on my Linux box.

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