Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:33:00 -0700 (PDT) From: <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905131530550.13759-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <19990514074412.27694@welearn.com.au>
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Hey, I'm just offering some thoughts on the matter. Nobody else bothered to mention the scrollback, and it seemed like a pretty portable problem with what he said. I've got no use for *BSD as a desktop machine... does that mean I shouldn't talk about it at all? --- tani hosokawa river styx internet On Fri, 14 May 1999, Sue Blake wrote: > 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
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