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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: What I'd *really like* for 2.0.5 
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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 15:56:18 +0100
From: Marc van Kempen <wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl>
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> >I would vote for just printing what is found by default and 
> >a -v option to give all kinds of debugging information, but
> >then the screen should also freeze after each screen full of
> >debugging info, in the past I had problems with the NCR driver
> >and I had to reboot like 10 to 20 times before I got enough
> >of the messages that were flying by.
> 
> Did you try scrollback?  The default scrollback is only 100
> lines total, but it could be 100000 lines or so while booting
> since the memory is not being used for anything else.
> 

Ofcourse (slaps hands against forehead) ... 
I had this problem with 2.0 which didn't have the 
scrollback buffer yet. If we can make sure to catch all output
this should be sufficient.

Marc.

Marc van Kempen                    wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl

He's dead Jim ..., kick him if you don't believe me.