You wrote (in your message from Wed 21)
 > 
 > What exactly *IS* COMPAT_43 for, anyway? I mean, its not like I have
 > all these old BSD 4.3 binaries sitting around for my box...

Among other things, it brings support for old style sgtty
support. This is unfortunatly still needed for xterm. 

The tty handling in xterm is quite awful and I haven't had time to
track the problems I got when I tried to add termios support to
it. For now in only knows about sgtty and termio.

					Matthieu