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scrolling terminal

Raam · 2004-02-25 10:15:19

you know the way in a dos box you can "pause" the window so you can examine some output (you just select a bit of text or something), well how does one do the same in a terminal in, say, Solaris? Currently, if I select a bit of output (output from my app that is) and then something else is printed out, it jumps back down…

25-02-2004 10:15am

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Raam

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you know the way in a dos box you can "pause" the window so you can examine some output (you just select a bit of text or something), well how does one do the same in a terminal in, say, Solaris?
Currently, if I select a bit of output (output from my app that is) and then something else is printed out, it jumps back down to the bottom of the window and I loose where I was.

anyone got any ideas?

cheers

KR

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#2 25-02-2004 10:26am

krinDar

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<CTRL>-S should stop the output, scroll to where you want using <shift>-<pgup> and <shift>-<pgdn>.

To start the output again use <CTRL>-Q

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#3 25-02-2004 11:07am

Raam

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thanks , that worked nicely!

KR

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