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16 .Dd April 9, 2020
17 .Dt SCROLL 1
18 .Os
19 .Sh NAME
20 .Nm scroll
21 .Nd scrollback buffer
22 .Sh SYNOPSIS
23 .Nm
24 .Op Fl Mh
25 .Op Fl m Ar size
26 .Op program Op arg ...
27 .Sh DESCRIPTION
28 The
29 .Nm
30 utility saves output lines from the child
31 .Ar program
32 to use them for scrollback.
33 If
34 .Ar program
35 is not set,
36 .Nm
37 starts the users default shell.
38 .Pp
39 The options are as follows:
40 .Bl -tag -width Ds
41 .It Fl h
42 Shows usage of
43 .Nm .
44 .It Fl M
45 Set memory limit used for scrollbackbuffer to maximum.
46 .It Fl m Ar size
47 Set memory limit used for scrollbackbuffer to
48 .Ar size .
49 .El
50 .Sh EXIT STATUS
51 .Nm
52 exits with the status code of its the child
53 .Ar program .
54 .Sh EXAMPLES
55 .Nm st
56 .Fl e
57 .Nm scroll
58 .Nm /bin/sh
59 .Sh SEE ALSO
60 .Xr screen 1 ,
61 .Xr st 1 ,
62 .Xr tmux 1
63 .Sh AUTHORS
64 .Nm
65 was written by
66 .An Jan Klemkow Aq Mt j.klemkow@wemelug.de
67 and
68 .An Jochen Sprickerhof Aq Mt git@jochen.sprickerhof.de .