screen scrollback

[Brian Kelsay]

In Putty, you set the number of lines of scrollback in the Configuration window that appears when you launch the program.  You can turn it down to zero or crank it up.  XTerm and rxvt, et al have similar features from their options/config menu.  
screen -h (num)  ----   Specifies the history scrollback buffer to be num lines high.

also, you can permanently set this via the following:
      When screen is invoked, it executes initialization  commands  from  the
       files  "/usr/local/etc/screenrc"  and  ".screenrc"  in  the user's home
       directory. These are the "programmer's defaults" that can be overridden
       in the following ways: for the global screenrc file screen searches for
       the environment variable $SYSSCREENRC (this  override  feature  may  be
       disabled  at compile-time). The user specific screenrc file is searched
       in $SCREENRC, then $HOME/.screenrc.  The command line option  -c  takes
       precedence over the above user screenrc files.

      Commands  in  these  files  are used to set options, bind functions to
       keys, and to automatically establish one or more windows at the	begin-
       ning  of  your  screen session.  Commands are listed one per line, with
       empty lines being ignored.  A command's arguments are separated by tabs
       or  spaces,  and  may  be surrounded by single or double quotes.	 A `#'
       turns the rest of the line into a comment, except in quotes.   Unintel-
       ligible	lines are warned about and ignored.  Commands may contain ref-
       erences to environment variables. The syntax is the shell-like "$VAR  "
       or "${VAR}". Note that this causes incompatibility with previous screen
       versions, as now the '$'-character has to be protected with '\'	if  no
       variable  substitution shall be performed. A string in single-quotes is
       also protected from variable substitution.

       Two configuration files are shipped as examples with your  screen  dis-
       tribution:  "etc/screenrc" and "etc/etcscreenrc". They contain a number
       of useful examples for various commands.

http://www.hmug.org/man/1/screen.html


Brian Kelsay

>>> "Jonathan Hutchins" <> 11/27/04 11:35PM >>>
Regarding some recent discussion of getting a convenient scrollback buffer
working with screen in an Xterm:  I notice that Ctrl-PgUp works fine in
Putty under windows.