Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:49:39 -0700 (PDT) From: <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905131144250.13759-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990513101133.0095e3e0@mail.bfm.org>
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > At 20:24 12-05-1999 -0700, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > >If you do want to clear your tracks a little more, switching to a > >different vconsole and back should do the trick. > Can you elaborate on that one? By switching to a different vconsole, do you > mean pressing Alt-F2 and then Alt-F1 again? Yep. That should clear the scrollback info, as long as *BSD uses the VGA memory to handle the scrolling (I'm assuming). > >> Actually, I once suggested to a Linux user to hit scroll lock and use > the page > >> up key. He told me it does not work that way under Linux - it just > freezes the > >> screen. > > > >Under Linux, it's shift-pgup and shift-pgdn > > OK, thanks. If the topic arises in my conversation with him again, I will > mention that to him. > > Adam > --- > Want to design your own web counter? > Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ > --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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