From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 13 11:43:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B011539C for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 11:43:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29438; Thu, 13 May 1999 11:49:39 -0700 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:49:39 -0700 (PDT) From: To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990513101133.0095e3e0@mail.bfm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 13 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > At 20:24 12-05-1999 -0700, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > >If you do want to clear your tracks a little more, switching to a > >different vconsole and back should do the trick. > Can you elaborate on that one? By switching to a different vconsole, do you > mean pressing Alt-F2 and then Alt-F1 again? Yep. That should clear the scrollback info, as long as *BSD uses the VGA memory to handle the scrolling (I'm assuming). > >> Actually, I once suggested to a Linux user to hit scroll lock and use > the page > >> up key. He told me it does not work that way under Linux - it just > freezes the > >> screen. > > > >Under Linux, it's shift-pgup and shift-pgdn > > OK, thanks. If the topic arises in my conversation with him again, I will > mention that to him. > > Adam > --- > Want to design your own web counter? > Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ > --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message