From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri May 14 1:17:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from server.bitmcnit.bryansk.su (bitmcnit.bryansk.ru [195.239.213.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C8251551F for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 01:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by server.bitmcnit.bryansk.su (8.8.8/8.8.7) with UUCP id LAA31304; Fri, 14 May 1999 11:38:39 +0400 Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01441; Fri, 14 May 1999 11:34:53 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from root@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su) Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:34:53 +0400 (MSD) From: Alex Kapranoff To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip In-Reply-To: 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 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