Re: How much traffic is generated in split screen mode?

[Juergen Weigert]

On Aug 27, 04 11:58:07 +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:32:47 -0400 Phil!Gregory wrote:
> > Yes.  If you have a caption at the bottom of the window, screen will
> > define a scrolling region that includes everything but that line.  It
> > appears to work similarly for split screens; when you switch windows,
> > screen tells the terminal to move the scrolling region.
> 
> But what happens for example if I have the following setup:
> 
>     ~> echo "a" >> some_file
>     ~> echo "b" >> some_file
>     ~> 
>     ######0 bash############
>     ~> tail -f some_file
>     a
>     b
>     ######1 bash############
> 
> How does the text in the lower region scroll when I enter more "echo"
> commands in the upper region. The scroll region, after all, is set to
> the upper region.

Changing a scroll region is a matter of a few bytes. 
In your example, the scroll region jumps between window 0 and window 1
as needed.  No sweat.

        cheers,
                jw.

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