It seems that resize is the culprit, at least it is for me.  It set's
-opost when it's done.  Running 'stty opost' cleans things up.  I'm not
sure what the _real_ problem is though.

Dave

> Rob Windsor writes:
> 
> >I've recently grabbed the latest source tarballs and recompiled the world
> >on both my personal PC and work Sparc 2.
> 
> >I've found that my xterms on my PC all have the stair-stepping problem (i.e.
> >no such thing as a carriage return, just newline).  The Sparc xterms work
> >fine.
> 
> >Full-text console works fine.
> 
> I just compiled a new -current kernel, (src from two days ago's sup),
> and my xterms now have a stair-stepping problem.
> 
> However, 'stty sane' seems to fix the problem.