Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:34:24 -0700 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to scrollback in terminal Message-ID: <497B7B50.6020201@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9a52b1190901240300kbe38bc0j2d0ddb05cf26b6e7@mail.gmail.com> References: <9a52b1190901232301g3339fe3bi508b04ef3aef1a3e@mail.gmail.com> <497AC692.2080401@gmail.com> <20090124080755.GB63837@dan.emsphone.com> <9a52b1190901240300kbe38bc0j2d0ddb05cf26b6e7@mail.gmail.com>
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Saifi Khan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> 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. > Yes it is. As you get into BSD more, you'll find it makes more logical sense to stick with it, over Linux. Welcome to the group.
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