On Wed, 22 Mar 1995 11:51:03 +0000 (GMT) 
 "Neil J. McRae" <neil@demon.net> wrote:

 > Does anyone know why bash gives the staircase effect when executing normal
 > commands, I've tried the stty settings to no avail.

I notice this only when telnet'ing to a NetBSD machine (with a working 
telnetd) from a broken host (such as a SunOS box...)  You can kludge it 
into working order by adding the `-k' flag to telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf...

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