Subject: Re: Even stupider question
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/17/1997 13:36:05
> >'sun' should work.  I'm trying to emulate a sun console, in any case.
> >8-)
> >
> >What weirdness are you seeing?  Is it just the jump scrolling?
> 
> Yeah, I think that's it.  I don't think "more" knows how to deal with
> the jump scrolling correctly; I lose approximately 10 lines off of the
> top.  Have I got something configured wrong?

No, it's just weirdness in the console terminal driver.  Several
people have suggested solutions, but i've got a complete rewrite
almost ready...

There are three #if 0's in /sys/arch/alpha/wscons/wscons_emul.c.

If you change the first two to #if 1, then it'll just scroll one line
at a time.


cgd