Bug#178988: anna: list of alternatives longer than screen

[era eriksson <era@iki.fi>]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:17:25 -0800, Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>
wrote:
 >> When I get to Load installer modules (fetch from CD), I am presented
 >> with a listing of 40 entries. This is impossible to view because the
 >> screen is only 24 lines and each entry takes up at least one line.
 > For the moment, you can work around this by using Shift-PageUp and
 > Shift-PageDown.

Thanks. I also found that installing a package would remove it from
the list, so installing things piecemeal is also a possible
workaround.

 > You don't have to reboot; type
 >  echo ^V<ESC>c
 > with ^V and <ESC> standing for the obvious keys.

Thanks a bunch.

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