From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 19:25:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02459 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:25:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02307 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:24:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA05674; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:23:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:23:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Leif Neland cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can console be set to page-mode? (scroll off) In-Reply-To: <91a_9801190805@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 19 Jan 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > Golded for linux write a statusline with the time changing every second. Even > when the last char is a space, the screen scrolls every second, leaving > statuslines on the whole screen. > > Is this scrolling possible to disable? No, not that I know of. Golded is probably depending on some tweaks in the Linux console that doesn't wrap when it hits character 25. Can you tell golded to not run the clock? > This only happens on fullscreen (character mode), not in Xterm. > But on the other hand, in xterm, colours are not used, and arrowkeys look like > esc to the program. xterm can do color, you may have to enable it. The escapes are golded's fault for not processing the termcap. Again, it was written with the Linux console in mind. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major