My my - that does the trick....I logged in from the SunOS box to netbsd
and did an stty -extproc....and now bash acts normally.  Funny, I don't have
this problem under csh when I telnet from a SunOS box - so i can't imagine
it's telnetd (unless I'm missing something).

Cheers,
Jake

> 
>  On Wed, 22 Mar 1995 08:12:21 -0800, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> said:
> 
> >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...
> 
>  After some investigation last week, a colleague discovered that
> telnetd effectively does a
> 
> stty extproc
> 
>  which says that the "other end" is going to do something with the
> terminal.  rlogin, correctly, effectively has "stty -extproc", since
> the "other end" isn't doing anything with the tty.
> 
>  I was in the process of dragging current to see if this had been
> fixed when our office PC died...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Ian
> 
>