Re: scrollback and VT switching

Speed Racer (shagboy@thecia.net)
Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:52:25 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?= wrote:

> 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? :-)

To my knowledge, this has never worked (at least not for me). Also,
sometimes the number of lines of scrollback vary. I assume this is
because the buffer is based on the total number of characters and not on
the number of lines?

shag

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