scrollback and VT switching

Gay Stephane (gay@valmorel.grenoble.hp.com)
Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:02:36 +0100


Thomas Koenig writes:
> 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? :-)

Feature, I would say. Scrollback is done into video memory, there's no
individual buffer for each VT. And it seems the video memory is cleared
after each VT switch.

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