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- From: thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com (jt -- John Thompson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: re: DM vs. xterm
- Message-ID: <199211122128.AA17807@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:28:39 GMT
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- from: srvr1.engin.umich.edu!apollo-list-errors
- subj: Re: DM vs. xterm
- date: 10 Nov 92 11:55:02 GMT
- sender: mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!klaava!hkarhune@uunet.uu.net (Heikki Karhunen)
- sender: apollo-request@srvr1.engin.umich.edu
- to: apollo@srvr1.engin.umich.edu
- sent: 11/12/1992 3:05 pm (CST)
- sender: pan!daemon
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- > In article <1992Nov10.113707.1@vxcrna.cern.ch> roeber@vxcrna.cern.ch wrote:
- > > In article <1992Nov9.192837.17737@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>, djf@bnr.ca (Duane Fowler) writes:
- > [ snip ]
- > > (PS: How do you get infinite scrollback in an xterm?)
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- > Errh... It isn't exactly infinite as I recall... Just blasted big.
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- > Something around 262144 lines, or some such largish number (I found
- > this while browsing thorugh some of the headers, can't remember where,
- > but it ought to be there somewhere).
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- From /sys/help/limits.hlp (<HELP> limits) --
- FEATURE SR9.7 SR10.2 SR10.4
- ------- ----- ------ ------
- ...
- DM:
- windows 50 110 110
- pads 40 100 100
- lines/pad 262143 262143 262143
- chars/line 256 1024 1024
- ...
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- > And yes, I can indeed have a large scrollback in xterm (I personally
- > favour 1000-2000 lines) with -sl commandline option.
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- Since we (SSEC) have bumped in to each and every one of these limits many
- times, I can't see how 1000-2000 lines help. My Xterms are set up with 10,000
- lines, and I run over that more often than I'd like.
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- -- jt --
- John Thompson
- Senior Engineer / Sys-Admin
- Honeywell, SSEC
- Plymouth, MN 55441
- thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com
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