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Joel J Adamson writes:

> [...] I have sudo installed on Slackware Linux 12.0, but the password
> prompt does not come up properly.

I guess the problem is that one of your shell init files probably
(executes a command which) writes to STDOUT.

-- 
Emílio C. Lopes
Munich, Germany