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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
>  
> 



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