Anyone seeing horizontal-scroll-mode issues with Terminal.app?

This is more a broadcast of findings than a question, but:
Related to things here (that is closed/archived):
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10061606#10061606
It looks like the version supported locally of bash/readline are working for Terminal.app's default TERM=xterm-256color; however, when sshing to RedHat Enterprise Linux, something goes "sidewasy."
If I'm seeing things correctly, it looks like the default TERM of xterm-256color isn't well supported by... bash?  readline?  If I leave TERM as default (?) of xterm-256color, then the readline/inputrc config for `set horizontal-scroll-mode Off' is ignored, and I get the hated (by me) horizontal scrolling.  If I:
export TERM=xterm-color
in the same session, changing nothing else, and then arrow back "up" into history, I get (my) preferred "vertical" scrolling of my long input command.  Are others seeing this?
So, it really looks like earlier versions of bash (before 4.x?) and/or readline (before 6.x?) don't properly support xterm-256color as a valid TERM, and must fall down and assume that the terminal doesn't support things like.. uhh... horizontal-scroll-mode Off.  Seems to be fixed by RHEL-6, but a problem in RHEL-4 and RHEL-6.
I'd originally, mistakenly assumed it was a bug in Terminal.app.
Again, this doesn't have to do with a Terminal.app session *local* to the Mac itself; but rather if you've ssh'd to a different operating system.

It is possible that the problem is in the terminfo terminal feature description file for xterm-256color on your Linux systems.
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-256color
You can examine the contents of the Mac and the Linux xterm-256color terminfo files using:
From Mac:     infocmp xterm-256color >tmp.mac
From Linux:   infocmp xterm-256color >tmp.linux
...copy the files to the same system...
Compare:      gvimdiff tmp.mac tmp.linux     # or just use diff if your prefer
Actually you may be able to do the compare with infocmp, but I have not experimented with that, and I know how to do the above already, so I went with what I know :-)
You can modify the infocmp generated output, and then compile a new terminfo file using 'tic' (man tic).  Then again for all I know, the binary format for a terminfo file is identical on Macs and Linux boxes, so you might be able to tranfer the Mac version to your Linux system(s).
You can use the TERMINFO environment variable to point to a different terminfo database.  See 'man 5 terminfo' for more information.
Again, all of this assumes that maybe it is the terminfo term-256color file that is different between the 2 systems.

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