Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
>How can I make xterm stays there even the -e command is finished?
>
>I want to directy my program output to a xterm window so that I can
>use my mouse-click for the paging & scrolling. But the problem is
>that the xterm windows disappears after my program finishes. Is
>there a way to let xterm windows stays there? thanks

xterm -e sh -c 'command;echo Type Control-d to close window;cat'

When the command finishes, the "cat" command will wait for the user to type something followed by Control-d.

Barry Margolin