Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:34:53 +0400 (MSD) From: Alex Kapranoff <root@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su> To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905141129430.888-100000@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905131144250.13759-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>
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On Thu, 13 May 1999 unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > > 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). Not quite right. It would be stupid of system console driver if it did so. My solution: just make a series of Enter hits after exit to fill the scrollback buffer with lots of login prompts ;-) and to push away your tracks. The buffer is not endless (its size is configured in kernel config file). -- Alex Kapranoff, Voice: +7(0832)469245. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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