Glynn Clements wrote:
 
 > I've tried M-x term under XEmacs 21.1.14 on both RedHat 6.2, 7.1 and
 > Debian 2.2r3, and under XEmacs 21.4.4 on RedHat 7.1 (the platform I'm
 > writing this report on). It doesn't seem to work properly, the
 > principal problem being that \r characters (carriage returns) are
 > somehow not reaching the terminal emulator, so that every time you
 > press RETURN the display stair
 >                                steps
 >                                      like
 >                                           this.
 > I've poked around in the code a bit and verified that
 > term-emulate-terminal is simply not being sent the \r characters.
 
 Try "stty onlcr". 
That doesn't seem to have any effect (I'd already tried it, but I
tried it again to make sure). Are you saying that this works for you?
(I've yet to find anyone for whom it actually works under XEmacs 21).