From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 13:56:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9322E16A4BF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C421B43F3F for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h7SKu5qj007928; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:56:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:56:05 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Charles Howse Message-ID: <20030828205605.GC29750@dan.emsphone.com> References: <005701c36da3$bb78f870$04fea8c0@moe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005701c36da3$bb78f870$04fea8c0@moe> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scroll back in console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:56:11 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 28), Charles Howse said: > I realize that I can pipe a command to a pager, but is there a > keystroke combination that I can use to scroll back in the console? > Shift+PageUp works in Linux. Hit scroll-lock, then up/down/pgup/pgdwn/home/end. Hit scroll-lock to get back to normal. You can use the vidcontrol -h command to change the number of lines in the history. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com