Butch:

That number is either the cursor position, or the time of day.
Simply exclude that line from your window containing the screen. i.e. 
redefine the user window to stop at the last line of the screen, or 
line 24 (usually).
Hope this helps.
At 6/20/2007, you wrote:

>Been playing with this program to give me better cursor tracking (if
>possible) when I'm doing stuff on my i r l p Linux box.  There is a number
>that appears on the status line at the bottom of the screen and it keeps
>repeating this number over and over, no matter what I try.  Any-suggestions
>welcome.  I usually use teraterm, but doesn't work all that well for some
>things.
>73s
>Butch Bussen
>wa0vjr
>
>
>
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