[TriLUG] xterm scrollback won't stick

[Mike Mueller]

When I "tail -f /var/log/messages" on an xterm, and I scrollback to look at 
something, the display jumps back to the most recent output whenever 
something new gets sent to the xterm.

In the past I used konsole (the KDE terminal emulator) and scrolling back was 
"sticky" - when you scrolled back to something, the display stayed there 
regardless of new stuff coming out.

I read "man xterm" and could find a commandline option for controlling this 
behavior.  Can anybody give me hint here?  Is it possible the behavior is a 
feature of konsole but not xterm?

TIA,
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Mike Mueller
324881 (08/20/2003)
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