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Subject: termcap
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Date: 6 Dec 89 23:26:58 GMT
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Get on a VT300_Series terminal and run the following program:

main()
{
  printf("%s\n",getenv("TERM"));
}

The output will be "undefined."  Since Emacs calls getenv("TERM"),
 it looks for a termcap entry named "undefined."  The solution is
  to put "undefined" in as one of the terminal names in the the
   termcap capability entry in TERMCAP.DAT.  Kludge city.

The problem is that the VAXCRTL isn't up-to-date with the rest of
 the system.  It's also generally incompatible with DEC/Shell,
  which determines the TERM variable a different way . . . usually
   dumber (i.e., "vt100" rather than "vt100-80") but in this case
    smarter (i.e., "vt300").

CAVEAT:  This is true for VMS V5.1, but I'm not running VMS V5.2
 yet.  However, the release notes for V5.2 don't mention any fixes
  to this part of the VAXCRTL.
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