From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 16:44:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00203 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:44:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00169 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA29946; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:44:01 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:43:31 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Dan Langille cc: David Knapp , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Newbie question about switching screens In-Reply-To: <199808110611.SAA14623@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Dan Langille wrote: > 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. This is possible by creating more vty's using: /dev/MAKDEV vty6 for 6 vty's You'll also have to make entries for gettys in /etc/ttys. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message