set horizontal-scroll-mode off ineffective, still scrolls

[sampo]

bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
uname -a
Linux mju 2.5.63 #2 Tue Mar 4 03:36:06 WET 2003 i686 unknown 

I am running above mentioned bash in a Solaris 2.6 xterm (i.e. I
launch xterm in Solaris and then ssh to the linux box). When I
upgraded my linux system using RedHat 7.3 an annoying misfeature
appeared: when I have long command lines, it scrolls them horizontally
instead of wrapping to next line. After some investigation I discovered
that this was actually an intentional feature (I can not imagine
who would want that to happen as it makes cutting and pasting said
long command lines in X impossible) that for some inexplicaple
reason defaults to on. 

Thus I say 

$ bind 'set horizontal-scroll-mode Off'
$ bind -v| grep horizontal-scroll-mode
set horizontal-scroll-mode off 

Although bash claims that the horizontal scroll mode is off, in reality
the undesireable scrolling continues to happen. I have not found out
any way to turn this off. 

Bug: the documented way to turn horizontal scrolling off does not work. 

Is it possible to compile bash such that horizontal scroll mode
can not be turned on? If so, I'd suggest this be made the default. 

Curiously enough, quick deja.com and google.com searches reveal
that there is wealth of people who want to turn this on and
nobody wants to turn it off. Do not people think what they are doing?
Thus I am left alone with my problem. 

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