Dirk> /home/edd/.terminfo/e/emacs Bruce> I wonder if Emacs put it there... Exited emacs, nuked ~/.terminfo, restarted emacs, started M-x shell, started M-x gdb (which now works again!!!), and have still no ~/.terminfo. Looks like emacs is innocent here. And the last time I blamed ncurses for something it turned out to be a readline2 problem ... -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd