Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 20:03:52 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Userland feature request Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981202200036.17481A-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov> In-Reply-To: <3665C9D6.F37F75D2@tdx.co.uk>
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > "Jason J. Horton" wrote: > > Quite awhile ago, when I occasionally used Linux, they had a feature > > that I found quite useful. Doing a CTRL-PageUP/PageDown(coulda been > > shift or alt, > > I don't remember)would scroll through the console buffer, useful if > > something scrolled off the screen by a few lines. Does anyone remember > > this feature? > > Would this be something we would want to implement? > > If your using the FreeBSD console - this already exists! > > I can pres 'ScrollLock' here, and hit PgUP and PgDown and see all the previous > output to the console... ;-) Is there a way to clear the scrollback buffer? When one logs out of the console, it would be good if someone else couldn't come along and see the last bits of what the previous user had been doing. I've tried putting \f in the gettytab, but it doesn't seem to clear the scrollback buffer. Guy Guy Helmer, Graduate Student, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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