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Date:      Wed, 30 Dec 1998 00:25:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
To:        "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>
Cc:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: broken pipe
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812300021150.10181-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19981229211614.0088ab80@mail.bfm.org>

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On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:

> I could only get the general idea they were complaining about
> insufficient
> disk space. I am new to this. And of course, since I reinstalled, there
are
> no logs. So, I don't know which ones.
> 
> My question was (meant to be) generic: When I get so many messages, is  
> there some key I can hit to stop the messages so I can get to the prompt
> and type a command and see what it does? That is basically what I am
asking.

You could always hit Scroll Lock to "freeze" the screen and use the arrow
keys to browse.  The messages you are getting are probably just
complaining about no space on the drive.

Happy New Year!
_____________________________
Patrick Seal
<patseal@hyperhost.net>

Hyperhost
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> I could only get the general idea they were complaining about 
> insufficient
> disk space. I am new to this. And of course, since I reinstalled, there are
> no logs. So, I don't know which ones.
> 
> My question was (meant to be) generic: When I get so many messages, is
> there some key I can hit to stop the messages so I can get to the prompt
> and type a command and see what it does? That is basically what I am asking.
> 
> Adam
>  
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