From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 23:12:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15369 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 23:12:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15355 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 23:12:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA14623; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:11:16 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808110611.SAA14623@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: "David Knapp" Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:11:16 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Newbie question about switching screens Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: FreeBSD Questions In-reply-to: <01a8f23e$46d3d4e0$7ed972cf@thor> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14 Jan 80, at 4:19, David Knapp wrote: > I would like to be able to read the man pages and/or Handbook and be able > to switch between the page I'm reading and the system prompt. Is this > possible, and if so - can you please point me to a man page or faq or > tell me what to do?? When I need to do this, I use ALT-F1/2/3 to use whichever virtual terminal I want to use. I don't know where the limit is specified. But it would be useful to increase it to 5 or 6. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message