> Exited emacs, nuked ~/.terminfo, restarted emacs, started M-x shell, started > M-x gdb (which now works again!!!), and have still no ~/.terminfo. Hrm. I *don't* have a ~/.terminfo directory, and I still have the problem. Ideas? Dirk, can you send me the output of dpkg --list 'ncurses*' on your machine? -- Robert Leslie rob@mars.org