Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:43:32 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.110 scrollback |
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> Okay.. my previous post wasnt absolutely exact. To get 0 scrollback you > have to be at the bottom line of the screen when you switch back from > another vc and run the clear; perl thing. > > outputing lines scrollback to line > 383 180 > 384 no scrollback > 385 361 > > And.. being at the bottom of the console where the last lines were > 197 > 198 > 199 (the result of outputing 200 lines) > > switched to another vc, came back, outputed another 200 lines, and when > I scrolled back, I could get to the start of those last 200 lines, with a > 177 instead of a 199. > > [scrollback ends here] > 177 > 0 > 1
Isn't this exactly what happened with older kernels before the console has changed, although with different numbers of scrolled-out lines needed to produce this effect?
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail."
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