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kj <no.email@please.post> writes:

> The Emacs port provided by MacPorts (Emacs 23.2.1) won't start on
> OS X Snow Leopard.
>
> The error message is:
>
> emacs: "Cannot open termcap database file"

My guess is that emacs is really looking for a terminfo
file.  When it didn't find that, it then tried the older termcap.

Anyway, not an OS X user, but check this first:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10589416&tstart=0

If that doesn't help, look around for a terminfo file, it will probably
be part of the libncurses package.