What you're seeing is the terminals response to
the terminal query char ctrl-E.
Most terminal proggies will respond with whatever
they've been told to respond with.
This is for the benefit of commands which can set
your TERM variable by querying the terminal emulator.
You can turn it off by setting the internal id of the
emulator.
I dunno how to do this with rxvt, but with xterm it's
-ti term_id
I'd try setting term_id to the null string.
You could also do this with X11 resource files I guess.
Things like Putty also allow you to set this string.
Of course, you should probably ask your programs NOT
to output ^E :-)
Matt
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