Greg Dunn wrote:
> >It's not in the FAQ b/c there wasn't a decent resolution to the problem
> >(IMO) when it came up last month (Jan 20th or so).  You can take a look at
> >the mailing list archives if you want the background.  I'm still not sure
> >why you are seeing this behavior.  You might try changing your terminal
> >type to vt100 and see if that helps.  Please let me know if it does.
> 
> That took care of it.  vi works fine with vt100 as my term, and the bash
> history display erases to end of line on each keystroke, which it was
> intermittently failing to do before.  Now I only have to live with the
> cursor ending up in the middle of the screen after login.   A fair trade
> IMHO.  :-)

I'll add it to the FAQ, then.  BTW, you might consider filing a PR on this
one since something is obviously broken.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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