Dr. Raman - You write "Please make sure that: 1) your terminfo environment variable points to where emacs put the eterm specific terminfo file --depending on your emacs installation it is somewhere under emacs/etc/.." What terminfo file should one look for? I have emacs 19.31, and found /usr/share/emacs/19.31/etc/termcap.src, but that does not have anything about eterm in it. - Jim Van Zandt