Does problem 1 happen when you are telnet-ed to the box from a
non-NetBSD system?  If so then the problem is probably with a bad telnet
implementation on the non-NetBSD machine.  Try running telnetd with the
"-k" flag.  Or better yet, run "telnetd -k" on a separate port and use
that from machines with a buggy telnet and use the normal telnetd mode
for saner machines.

Dave

>         1) With bash, the machine doesn't always seem to carriage
> return properly, so sometimes ls(1), or stty(1) outputs look really
> bad. I get the linefeed, but no carriage return.
> 
>         2) Is there a fairly safe way to sup a running machine I don't
> have good physical access to? As I said, my NetBSD is at least 107
> days old, and I suspect the answer to problem #1 is libc, but I'm
> afraid to go poking around, lest I have to jump in the car and drive
> 20 miles to get it back up and running. I'm not really sure of the
> sup procedures to begin with ... it there a tutorial?
> 
> Thanks again for a really nice OS, and all of the help.