From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 13 14:44:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98B914E6D for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 14:44:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id HAA25990; Fri, 14 May 1999 07:44:18 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19990514074412.27694@welearn.com.au> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:44:12 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip References: <3.0.6.32.19990513101133.0095e3e0@mail.bfm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from unknown@riverstyx.net on Thu, May 13, 1999 at 11:49:39AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 11:49:39AM -0700, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > 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). I guess if you eat all your veggies and be kind to those less fortunate than yourself it will eventually happen for you. There, who can do better than that! If you can't use so many wild guesses, you know where to go :-) -- Regards, -*Sue*- (` ;) '` <-- a moulting +0 budgerigar named Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message