diff --git a/doc/fixes36.3 b/doc/fixes36.3
index 231b49851..c7c3be730 100644
--- a/doc/fixes36.3
+++ b/doc/fixes36.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.53 $ $NHDT-Date: 1560597210 2019/06/15 11:13:30 $
+$NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.54 $ $NHDT-Date: 1560600663 2019/06/15 12:11:03 $
 
 This fixes36.3 file is here to capture information about updates in the 3.6.x
 lineage following the release of 3.6.2 in May 2019. Please note, however,
@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ using ^G to create "hidden mimic" shouldn't have marked it as undetected since
 for wizard mode 'wizweight' option, glob weight wasn't shown unless glob had
 	shop price information attached
 curses: sometimes the message window would show a blank line after a prompt
+tty: revert the attempt to fix "message line anomaly: if autodecribe feedback
+	wrapped to second line, the wrapped portion wasn't erased when a
+	shorter line was shown or getpos was dismissed" because it disrupted
+	prompts that spanned more than one line, a more significant issue
 
 
 Platform- and/or Interface-Specific Fixes or Features
@@ -128,9 +132,6 @@ tty: re-do one optimization used when status conditions have all been removed
 	and remove another that tried to check whether condition text to be
 	displayed next was the same as the existing value; sometimes new
 	status condition wouldn't be shown unless a screen redraw was forced
-tty: message line anomaly: if autodecribe feedback wrapped to second line,
-	the wrapped portion wasn't erased when a shorter line was shown or
-	getpos was dismissed
 Windows: some startup error messages were not being delivered successfully
 
 
diff --git a/win/tty/topl.c b/win/tty/topl.c
index 0c6302250..ba21797a7 100644
--- a/win/tty/topl.c
+++ b/win/tty/topl.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* NetHack 3.6	topl.c	$NHDT-Date: 1560387439 2019/06/13 00:57:19 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.45 $ */
+/* NetHack 3.6	topl.c	$NHDT-Date: 1560600658 2019/06/15 12:10:58 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.46 $ */
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /*-Copyright (c) Michael Allison, 2009. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
@@ -156,8 +156,10 @@ const char *str;
         cl_end();
         addtopl(str);
 
+#if 0   /* this doesn't work as intended; it disrupts multi-line prompts */
         if (ttyDisplay->cury && ttyDisplay->toplin != 3)
             more();
+#endif
     }
 }