Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:00:31 +0000 From: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to scrollback in terminal Message-ID: <9a52b1190901240300kbe38bc0j2d0ddb05cf26b6e7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090124080755.GB63837@dan.emsphone.com> References: <9a52b1190901232301g3339fe3bi508b04ef3aef1a3e@mail.gmail.com> <497AC692.2080401@gmail.com> <20090124080755.GB63837@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > 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 Thank you Tim and Dan for helping me out. The BSD model is more logical and straightforward. -- thanks Saifi.
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