Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
> Does anyone know how to freeze the top part of a
> vt100 type login session?

If your terminal supports scrolling regions and your terminfo database is functional, this should do:

{
  read -r line; tput clear; echo "$line"
  lines=$(tput lines)
  tput sc; tput csr 1 $[lines-1]; tput rc
  cat
  tput sc; tput csr 0 $[lines-1]; tput rc
}

See: man terminfo

Martin

documented on: 2000.06.14 Wed 13:59:19