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From: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp. (Kazutaka YOKOTA)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Increase Scrollback Possible?
Date: 10 Jul 1997 03:44:07 GMT
Organization: Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan
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In article <5pkinn$5t7@news1-alterdial.uu.net> for comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Todd D Suess wrote:

root>>Is it possible to increase the amount of "scrollback" on console terminals via 
root>>the scroll lock key, and if so, how?

Yes, it is possible. See the man page for kbdcontrol.

Please be warned that there was a bug in the console driver when
changing histroy buffer size.  Do not set the size less than the
number of rows of the console, even by accident.

The bug was just recently found and fixed.  So, the next release of
FreeBSD will be free of this bug.

Kazu