Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:26:37 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.com> To: Lawrence Mayer dsg <Lawrence.Mayer@dsg.ki.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to scroll through several screens of text ? Message-ID: <20020603172637.7113b447.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206040212360.23533-100000@mbox.ki.se> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0204290326050.3352-100000@mbox.ki.se> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206040212360.23533-100000@mbox.ki.se>
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 02:15:37 +0200 (MET DST) Lawrence Mayer dsg <Lawrence.Mayer@dsg.ki.se> wrote: > 1. Is there a way to make FreeBSD output no more than n lines to the > screen at a time, and wait for a "return" before outputing the next n > lines to the screen? (That way, I could adjust n to be slightly less > than the number of lines on my screen and could read each screen at my > leisure instead of having them fly past much too fast too read.) > > 2. What if I'm using a terminal emulator like xterm or rxvt? Any way > to do(1) above? > > 3. Is there any way to increase the size of FreeBSD's screen buffer? > > 4. If so, will this method work if I'm using a terminal emulator like > xterm or rxvt? You can "pipe" the output of these commands to a pager such as "more" or "less". So, `ls | less` would allow you to scroll around in the results of ls using a utility called "less" As for rxvt, you could start it with some switches such as `rxvt -sb -sr -sl 200`. See man rxvt to see what each of these switches does, but this command should suit your needs (possibly more) for rxvt. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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