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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:50:20 +0200
From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To: bsdnewbie bsdnewbie <bsdnewbie@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to enlarge the screen buffer
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Hi,

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:18:35PM -0600, bsdnewbie bsdnewbie wrote:
> I usually use the key "Pause", then PageUP&Down to get the messages beyond 
> one screen.  It seemed that system has keep these data in a screen buffer 
> (not sure).  The question is: How to enlarge this buffer so I can see more 
> information?

See /sys/i386/conf/LINT (on 4.1-STABLE):

options         SC_HISTORY_SIZE=200     # number of history buffer lines

Increase that in your kernel config & recompile & reboot. That is if
you're using sc of course, I wouldn't know if pcvt can do the same.

HTH,

--Stijn


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