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i took a look at the man page, seen what you are saying. yet when i call up xterm from another console, xterm -aw, it still doesn't wrap the lines. i tried other methods also, still no luck.
Puzzling, when I call xterm +aw I get exactly the type of behavior you are describing.
I looked closer at the man page. It appears that (for me) the system wide defaults should be in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xterm. The user defaults should be settable in ~/.Xdefaults. I would expect (and for me it did) that the command line arguments would override these configuration files.
Do you get the same behavior when X is not running?
i went into a vc and the linewrap is still off. a friend of mine told me that all of the original bash files are in /etc/skel/. here i found a .bashrc, cp to my home and the line wrapping is back on.
it seems like once i set my prompt to be a custom set up, having yellow for the user and red for root (did that for a quicker reference on who i was at the time), somehow the linewrapping shut it self off. now i just have to figure out how to have the two of them work together.
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