Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:15:19 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase ScrollLock buffer size on FreeBSD 4.5R2? Message-ID: <20020303221519.GA57277@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20020303202828.GA1352@raggedclown.net> References: <20020302152508.M854-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> <443czhdasq.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <E16hZNr-0004J7-00@falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <20020303202828.GA1352@raggedclown.net>
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On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:28:28PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:02:40AM -0600, Bob Giesen wrote: > > On Sunday 03 March 2002 07:45 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> writes: > > > > Hello, could you tell me if there is a man page about the "Scroll > > > > Lock" key and the buffer size [limit and how to increase this]? > > > > Thanks kindly, > > > > > > man vidcontrol > > > > This man page doesn't seem to hold the answer, but refers to > > syscons (4) -- which seems to indicate that the kernel can be > > configured with the SC_HISTORY_SIZE=n option, where n is the desired > > number of buffer lines (which defaults to 100). > > > man vidcontol > . > . > > -h size > Set the size of the history (scrollback) buffer to size lines. Except that you can't increase the size of the buffer beyond what is specified by the SC_HISTORY_SIZE option. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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