This is a forward version of my message. May or may not show up.
> 
> > a bannter and prompting for a login name. The login screen I see
> > looks like:
> > NetBSD
> >        NetBSD
> >              NetBSD(eno.Stfor.DU(tt0
> >                                     loi:jot
> > 
> > (The host's name is "Reno.Stanford.EDU", and the login name I typed
> > was "jonathan".)
> > 
> > I can't tell if this is a kernel bug, an init bug, a getty bug,
> > or a bug in my gettytab/ttys.
> > 
> > I'm using a vt220 set up in 8bit, no parity mode, if it matters.
> > 
> Well this is not a bug. Mmm depends on how you look at it. If you
> receive chars as 8 bits and sending them as 7 with parity this is
> what you get on the screen. Try to set up the vt220 to 7 bits zero
> parity/ignore and things may clear up. Iv'e had a similar problem
> so it's not pmax specific.
> 
> Also check /etc/ttys (or is it gettydefs?) to see how the terminal
> is set up.
> 
> Per
>