>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.  :-)

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