how to scrollback in terminal

[Saifi Khan]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Dan Nelson <dnelson at 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 at allantgroup.com

Thank you Tim and Dan for helping me out.

The BSD model is more logical and straightforward.

-- 
thanks
Saifi.