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Description of problem:
"top -bn1" should produce plain-text output and exit.  It does not
address the screen, and so should not consult $TERM.  In 2.0.11, it
did not, but in 3.2.0 it does.

With procps-2.0.11-6 on Red Hat 9:

     % setenv TERM no-such-terminal-type
     % top -bn1 | head
       (works)

With procps-3.2.0-1.1 on Fedora Core 2:

     % setenv TERM no-such-terminal-type
     % top -bn1 | head
     'no-such-terminal-type': unknown terminal type.

     % setenv TERM dumb
     % top -bn1 | head
       (works)

So, even though top does not make use of the terminal entry, it
insists on there being one anyway.

This is a problem because Emacs *shell* buffers set $TERM to "emacs",
which has no termcap entry, so when I do top-ish grep-ish things in
Emacs, I have to screw around with $TERM to make it work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
procps-3.2.0-1.1

How reproducible:
Always

Expected Results:
"top -bn1" should work the same regardless of the $TERM setting.