Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:07:59 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to scrollback in terminal Message-ID: <20090124080755.GB63837@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <497AC692.2080401@gmail.com> References: <9a52b1190901232301g3339fe3bi508b04ef3aef1a3e@mail.gmail.com> <497AC692.2080401@gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: > Saifi Khan wrote: > > > > i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in > > FreeBSD 7.1 > > > > SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. > > > > Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? > > scroll lock, and pgup After you hit scroll-lock, up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end all work, you can copy and paste the history text with your mouse, and there's a separate history per VTY. You can also set the number of scrollback lines with the "vidcontrol -n ###" command. Significantly better than Linux's scrollback... -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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