how to scrollback in terminal

[Tim Judd]

Saifi Khan wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes it is.  As you get into BSD more, you'll find it makes more logical 
sense to stick with it, over Linux.  Welcome to the group.