Subject: Re: backscrolling on virtual consoles
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Nigel Reed <nigel@nelgin.nu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/19/2001 11:42:39
Why are we using scroll lock? I've never heard of anyone using
scroll lock and page up before. What's wrong with using ctrl
and page up like everyone else?...or is that the reason?

Regards
Nigel
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:51:34PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:57:01AM -0800, collver@softhome.net wrote:
> > On the Linux virtual console, you can scroll back through the output by
> > pressing control-pageup.  I've seen someone post that you can do the same
> > in BSD by pressing scoll-lock and then pageup.  This doesn't work for me.
> > 
> > Is there a way to scroll back through the virtual console in NetBSD?
> 
> This has not been integrated in the tree yet.
> Look at http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=11874
> 
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> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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