Ok the xterm missbehaving seemed to be a freebsd issue :-)
Full reset etc did nothing.  Toggling scrollbar off on seemed to fix
it.

--sjg

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:31:08 -0700 (PDT), Simon Gerraty writes:
>Break to ddb, still getting everying on one line.  Weird.
>Doesn't matter what I do to the xterm, I just get one
>line of output overwriting itself.  Fortunately its a serial console
>with logging!