Re: scrollback and VT switching

David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu)
Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:25:04 -0500

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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 19:38:49 +0100 (MET)
From: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?=)

After switching from the current VT to another one and back, scrollback
no longer works for the original VT. Is this a bug or a feature? :-)

The VC scollback buffer is a one-VC at a time cache, once you
VC-switch you blow the cache.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@caip.rutgers.edu

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