Re: Pause

[L Vogtmann <vmann@vmann.net>]

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On Wednesday 02 January 2002 09:09 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:26:13PM -0800, Paul A. Thomas 
(bluewhale@jaxkneppers.com) wrote:
> > Searching reveals ways to pause help files if you don't wish to use a
> > pipe command... is there  a keyboard stroke which corresponds to the
> > 'pause' key when the initial boot takes place?  The commands ^S ^Q or
> > Left Shift PgUp & PgDn would seem to be made for browsing help files or
> > other text displays.
>
> ^S and ^Q were far more useful on 300 baud modems.
>
> Use a pager -- more, less, most, etc.

I think he means for the boot up messages from the kernel.  You can't use a 
pager there.

"dmesg" will show you the last kernel messages.  Use it after boot to see 
what the kernel spits out when it boots.
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