>      Also, has anybody gotten "term" to work on NetBSD?  I have compiled 
>      it, but did not work.  Do I need any patches???

I got Term 1.11 (stock, no patches) to work fine with NetBSD 0.9, as
the local end.  The remote end is a Sparc running SunOS.

I haven't tried it with any later versions of NetBSD, or as the remote
end.  Let me know if I can be of further help.

cheers,
Bob Tillman
bobt@cognex.com