Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can fix emacs by using > > apt-get install termcap-compat > > > It's about time that emacs supported terminfo but unfortunately there > is no one with the time to do the work.
Thanks for the usage tips for dpkg. And the above install did get things working. However I ran into other problems. Emacs is not finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile with X11 support. I didn't save the error output since I don't really want to debug it right now. Too busy getting this new install working. I use emacs a lot so I just installed the debian version of emacs-21 instead. Or I should say I'm downloading it now. I'll get back to this at some point though, because I tinker with emacs a lot.