From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 11:00:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E3F106564A for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:00:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saifikhan@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D028FC13 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:00:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saifikhan@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so5236525rvf.43 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:00:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QRJyjpMOoj/1FZXq/YaeY733KBv7QRuM6d/yIrgRodg=; b=Q2/IXPb1n2ZMCcdq/jXE1/Zjg7PMUyTjGxr08oUOXYy8nW128B31zEiH7skXJEJBPM VyFvyIpKz7G6NsMR3OTecKYmNKKHHhQQ/XIwilliigWng1NFvjt+WP2Wnru5xQA/M7WR K51ZPeM90xYiCWXitIat17MaU7AUAcHbzjG+w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=HBVbGdMtzlPeUlQKmRJp0kpNFTYCfxjD3X1mF+zKWxaAJK9w/HDVAaPRpPOtyCJuRd Yprjl+YsKEc35PbOFp96lZdNJWTs6lPerwrKfUBV+UFuiP2EMVPT6P8ud1RUtD9C6cl4 Ow/NhhJG3KBOdJQvntVtnpQm/ftWZoKe2hJrY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: saifikhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.210.2 with SMTP id m2mr4816335rvq.26.1232794831173; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:00:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090124080755.GB63837@dan.emsphone.com> References: <9a52b1190901232301g3339fe3bi508b04ef3aef1a3e@mail.gmail.com> <497AC692.2080401@gmail.com> <20090124080755.GB63837@dan.emsphone.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:00:31 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5cee5a15880b78ae Message-ID: <9a52b1190901240300kbe38bc0j2d0ddb05cf26b6e7@mail.gmail.com> From: Saifi Khan To: Dan Nelson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tim Judd , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to scrollback in terminal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:00:31 -0000 On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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 Thank you Tim and Dan for helping me out. The BSD model is more logical and straightforward. -- thanks Saifi.