Does Xterm support horz and vert scrolling?

["Daniel B. Thurman" <dant@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know that Xterm supports vertical scolling as it had for

many years, but does it support horizontal scrolling?

                                          ^

To clarify, vertical scolling is  | and horizontal scrolling is: <-->

                                          v

 

Seems to me I coulda sworn that xterm did support horizontal

scrolling but alas - I cannot prove it!  I must be getting old,  really,

really old. :D

 

I was working with cygwin on w2kPro (yeah, yeah, I know this is a

Fedora site), and I liked that I could open the Cygwin command window

that supports H & V scrolling, setting xterm to nowrap, stty columns to 810,

and exec a tail -f on an ansi colorized log file that has a very long line

width of just over 800 characters per line) and I was able to use the URL

line such as:

1) tail -f "\\\\winHost\\d$\\Program File\\Exchsrvr\\EventSink\\Log\\aTracker.log"

 

The above scenario works well.

 

But I was shite-out-of-luck trying to get the same log monitoring capability

using Cygwin's windowmaker session in win2kPro since xterm does not

seem to support H-scroll but can access the URL log file, but with Fedora,

I have two problems: H-Scroll does work nor can I tail an SMB file such as:

2) tail -f smb://winHost/D%24/Program%20File/Exchsrvr/EventSink/Log/aTracker.log

I also tried the URL in (1) above and nope that did not work either.

 

Any suggestions?

 

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