Re: Emacs on AIX, can't find terminal init

[John Richardson]

kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) wrote in message 
news:<bfmjn2$npm$1@news.btv.ibm.com>...
> john.s.richardson@bankofamerica.com (John Richardson) writes:
> > Sorry for the newbie question, but they just put emacs on our
> > development AIX machine here and when I start it, emacs comes back
> > with
> > 
> > emacs: Terminal type vt420 is not defined.
> > 
> > I see the file 
> > 
> > /opt/freeware/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/term/vt420.el
> > 
> > and have dug thru some of the doc, but am having trouble telling emacs
> > to look for the init file in that location. I presume that's my
> > problem.
> 
> FWIW, I use AIX and there is no vt420.el anywhere that I can see.
> 
> Are you directly connected (to a video card) or are you logging in
> with a vt420 type terminal through a serial port?  Are running X
> windows?
> 
> Assuming the normal direct connection and running X, I wonder why
> vt420 is mentioned at all?  Perhaps there is some left over
> customization in your .emacs or one of the startup files that should
> be removed?
> 
> --

I'm telnetting into the box using Kea which is set to think I'm using
a vt420. So, no x-windows. This is all brand-new on this machine. We
got enough of a critical mass that the sysadmin put emacs on for us.
Not sure where he got all the pieces since the story I heard was that
the IBM distibution kit didn't have the non-x emacs binary (implying
that other parts were missing as well).

I tried setting the load path in my '.emacs' file and starting it with
the debugger, but all I got was the complaint about the terminal type.
Korn shell is the defualt, fwiw.