Ever since I started using this Debian box here at work, I've had
an issue that I attributed to gnome-terminal, which is the xterm-ish
thing I run under X.

Well, I decided to test it, and discovered the issue is actually the
shell's fault.

Here's the problem, if I type more than a line's length of text, while
the text does wrap to the left, it does NOT go a line down.

So, for example, if I wanted to do this:

  atari~> mv some_file_with_a_really_long_name.txt /some/really/long/and/involv
  ed/path/to/another/directory/

It visually APPEARS like this:

  ed/path/to/another/directory/eally_long_name.txt /some/really/long/and/involv

>:^(

It does this not just in gnome-terminal, but also from the virtual
consoles.

I'm running GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
under Debian 2.2.  Is there some ENV-var I can tweak to make it work _right?_

Thanks!

-bill!

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