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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!iol!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Current TERM info! From where? Date: 14 Mar 1996 22:49:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4ia7q6$191@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4i5u39$5hc@anega.aladon.donetsk.ua> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 andy@atoll.aladon.donetsk.ua (Andrey Yushkov) writes: > Hi! One interesting question. When we press Scroll-Lock key, > we can see last 3 page of information, which was output to > the console. From where FreeBSD takes that information? It's stored in a special buffer inside the syscons console driver. Since the driver has ``seen'' all the output lines so far, it simply scrolls them off into the history buffer instead of dropping them when the time has come to scroll up. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)