From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 08:08:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3515A106564A for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:08:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE26C8FC1A for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:08:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan-a.emsphone.com [199.67.51.107]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n0O882xV024654 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:08:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0O882J7028214 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:08:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n0O880Ex028213; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:08:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:07:59 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Tim Judd Message-ID: <20090124080755.GB63837@dan.emsphone.com> References: <9a52b1190901232301g3339fe3bi508b04ef3aef1a3e@mail.gmail.com> <497AC692.2080401@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <497AC692.2080401@gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.1, clamav-milter version 0.94.1 on email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:08:02 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: Saifi Khan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to scrollback in terminal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:08:06 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: > Saifi Khan wrote: > > > > i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in > > FreeBSD 7.1 > > > > SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. > > > > Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? > > scroll lock, and pgup After you hit scroll-lock, up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end all work, you can copy and paste the history text with your mouse, and there's a separate history per VTY. You can also set the number of scrollback lines with the "vidcontrol -n ###" command. Significantly better than Linux's scrollback... -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com