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emacs-19.30 and termcap problem



I installed emacs-19.30 yesterday. With emacs (in geometry 80x40) under X11,
as usually, I tried to debug a program today and got

"/etc/termcap", line 877: terminal 'tab132', slashes aren't allowed in names
or aliases

But it works with "emacs -nw" in an xterm. I really have no clue about these
termcap/terminfo stories. What needs fixing here? Presumably the /etc/termcap
from base?

edd@miles:~> dpkg -l "*curs*" emacs base
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name         Version   Rev  Description
+++-============-=========-====-===============================================
pn  elf-ncurses                 (no description available)
un  ncurses                     (no description available)
ii  ncurses-base    1.9.8a 4    Video terminal manipulation: Minimum set of ter
ii  ncurses-bin     1.9.8a 4    Video terminal manipulation: associated program
un  ncurses-dev                 (no description available)
pn  ncurses-deve                (no description available)
pn  ncurses-runt                (no description available)
pn  ncurses-term                (no description available)
un  ncurses21-de                (no description available)
ii  ncurses3.0      1.9.8a 4    Video terminal manipulation: shared libraries
ii  ncurses3.0-d    1.9.8a 4    Video terminal manipulation: Developer's librar
ii  emacs            19.30 1    The GNU Emacs editor.
ii  base            0.93.6 13   Debian Base System Miscellaneous Files




-- 
Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd


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