Hi Kerry. Do you mean a utility such as less? ----- Original Message ----- From: Kerry Hoath <kerry@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:14 PM Subject: Re: scroll back? > Shift-pageup and shift-pagedown activate the scrollback > feature in Linux but it doesn.t work with speakup > to my knowledge. > I use screen for this with the control-leftbracket keystroke and scroll back that way. > To make a command show usage and page the result do this: > ls --help 2>&1|less > the 2>&1 redirects standard error to standard output so you can page the result > through a pager. > > regards, Kerry. > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:33:10PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > > Hi listers. I have encountered the problem of let's say you are looking at usage for a particular program. And it scrolls to the next screen. Is there a way to be able to look at the previous screen? Like does the screen or the operating system keep a temporary buffer of the previous screen until refreshed by another shell command? What I'm refering to is something similar to a scroll back buffer that I believe used to exist in Dos. Does such a thing exist under Linux? I thought I read in some howto that the keystroke for this was alt+backspace or something? Thanks! > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
