Re: Pause

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:48:44PM -0800, L Vogtmann wrote:
> 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.

You can, however, use ^S and ^Q - at least on any Linux machine I've
ever used.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]