On Du, 27 iul 14, 12:34:17, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 7/26/14, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages to fly > > past at a bewildering speed and then for the screen to be cleared by > > agetty. > > I've thought for years, and noted in my "fix unix" notes that > boot messages ought be written starting at the top of the > screen, then when they get to the bottom, rather than > continuing at the bottom and scrolling, to start at the top > again, *without* clearing the screen. You are aware of course that: - scrolling can stopped - the clearing of the screen can be prevented - it's also possible to scroll *back* (surprise, surprise) - the scroll-back buffer can be increased Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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