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To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
cc: "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Userland feature request
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote:

> 
> 
> "Jason J. Horton" wrote:
> > 
> > Quite awhile ago, when I occasionally used Linux, they had a feature
> > that I found quite useful. Doing a CTRL-PageUP/PageDown(coulda been
> > shift or alt,
> > I don't remember)would scroll through the console buffer, useful if
> > something scrolled off the screen by a few lines. Does anyone remember
> > this feature?
> > Would this be something we would want to implement?
> 
> If your using the FreeBSD console - this already exists!
> 
> I can pres 'ScrollLock' here, and hit PgUP and PgDown and see all the previous
> output to the console... ;-)
> 
> Have fun <G>
> 
> -Kp
> 
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On the subject.. does anyone know how to increase the size of the console
scrollback buffer? 
It just doesn't go back far enough for me (I have my xterms go back 3000
lines or so, to make sure I can see the ol' login prompt (usually:) )

-rob
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