xterm needs reset, no output

[jjbuddmd at swbell.net]

I have attempted to get wine functioning for several days
but have been having no output recognizable as a windows
program, rather the terminal acts much as though the output
was that of a cat of a binary file and requires a reset to
become useful again. I am running Slack 7.1 on 2.2.18 on a
dual celeron machine using XFree86 4.0.2. All other programs
are functioning normally.  I have used precompiled binaries
and compiled from source with no change in behavior.
Any ideas?   John