Terminal's line wrap turned off globally?

Hi, I've had a problem that's been bugging me since 10.6 came out.
I have to log onto HP switches as part of my job, and their weird command line interface disables line wrap on the terminal window. Fair enough, they can do what they want, once I'm finished I just close the window and start another.
However, since 10.6 came along, when the HP sends the sequence to disable line wrap, it disables line wrap in all open windows. New windows opened after this are fine, but all windows open at the time (including to all the non-HP network equipment I have to manage) lose any text that goes past the end of the line, instead of wrapping.
I'm getting sick of having to close all my windows and re-log in to all my other sessions after I have to log into an HP switch.
To head off any comments about terminal prompts (since that's what most of my searches turn up), I use tcsh with the very boring prompt "%m%# ". It's not that.

Terminal and general Unix oriented questions are best asked in the Mac OS X Technologies > Unix Forum
<http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735>
I do not know what is happening with Terminal, but you could try (even as an experiment) iTerm (free download)
<http://iterm.sourceforge.net/>
iTerm is my preferred terminal emulator. At work, I typically have 2 iTerm windows, and each window has about 8 to 10 tabbed sessions ssh'ed into at least 7 different systems (Macs, Linux, Solaris, AIX, to name a few). Lucky for me, my current emplorer has not made me work the HP-UX Yet!
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Hi, I've had a problem that's been bugging me since 10.6 came out.
I have to log onto HP switches as part of my job, and their weird command line interface disables line wrap on the terminal window. Fair enough, they can do what they want, once I'm finished I just close the window.
However, since 10.6 came along, when the HP sends the sequence to disable line wrap, it disables line wrap in all open windows. New windows opened after this are fine, but all windows open at the time (including to all the non-HP network equipment I have to manage) lose any text that goes past the end of the line, instead of wrapping. Note it's lost, it's not overwriting the last character on the line.
This feels like a bug to me where something that's supposed to apply to a single window is applying to all. I'm getting frustrated having to close all my windows and re-log in to all my other sessions after I have to log into an HP switch.
To head off any comments about terminal prompts (since that's what most of my searches turn up), I use tcsh with the very boring prompt "%m%# ". It's not that.

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I tried this, and it seems to work.
I got the escape codes from HP
<http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/basedoc/DOCUMENTATION/V50A_HTML/MAN/MAN5/0036___.HTM>
Well HP didn't actually write them, but rather written by Digital Equipment Corporation for Digital UNIX (formally OFS/1), but then it became Compaq Tru64 UNIX, and then finally HP Tru64 UNIX, where HP is successfully killing the product.

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