It appears there is, although I don't have CDE on AIX here to test it.  >From 
the AIX command reference on dtterm:

saveLines : Specifies the number of lines in the terminal buffer beyond length 
of the window. The value consists of a number followed by an optional suffix. 
If no suffix is included, or the suffix is l (ell), the total length of the 
terminal buffer will be screens plus the length of the terminal window. If the 
suffix is s (ess), the total length of the terminal buffer will be (screens 
plus one) times the length of the terminal window. dtterm will try to maintain 
the same buffer-to-window ratio when the window is resized larger. The default 
is 4s. 

For CDE on Solaris, the following line may be used in .dtprofile to set the 
value.

Dtterm*saveLines:       4s

Hope this helps.
Karin

-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:56 PM
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Subject: [nv-l] Setting # of save lines for dtterm on AIX


Here's an off-topic AIX question. 
One of my colleagues is trying to alter the defaults for dtterm on AIX and 
cannot figure out how to do it.  She writes:

"When you bring up dtterm on AIX, you get a window and as you do stuff, 
lines scroll by. There is a scrollbar so you can scroll up and see the 
lines that went by. However, by default, the number of lines you can 
scroll back is fairly small. I want to set that number to be much larger.

I found an XTerm book which said you could do that for XTerm by adding the 
line XTerm*saveLines: 999 (or whatever) to the .Xresources file in root. 
Is there a similar thing to do for dtterm?"

I 'm not familiar enough with the CDE to help.  I let dtterm default and 
start my own aixterms  (just like I did for years before the CDE)  from 
scripts when I want a customized window. 
Anybody else know what to do?

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
 



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