SSH shell commands

cant avoid wrapping

[russgri]

 test 
$ tar -zxvpf http://example.org/releases/example/example-0.8.2-rc6.tgz

I am new to shell commands.
Working from a maximized page...
When typing in the command it wraps about mid-page and instead of going to the next line, It wraps at the beginning of the same line and sometimes three lines above.
Is there a pipe or something I can use?

[edited by: Woz at 9:02 am (utc) on Nov. 22, 2005]
[edit reason] Examplified code [/edit]

[physics]

You can use the backslash to start on a new line like

$ls -a \
>-l \
>
<directory contents shown here>

Also, some terminals will wrap like you described only at certain screen widths. Try adjusting the width of your shell screen and see if that fixes it.