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authorhm <hm@FreeBSD.org>2000-01-09 08:46:10 +0000
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update pcvt manual page to document the scrollbackbuffer usage
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1995 Hellmuth Michaelis, Brian Dunford-Shore,
+.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 2000 Hellmuth Michaelis, Brian Dunford-Shore,
.\" Joerg Wunsch and Holger Veit.
.\"
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -30,19 +30,14 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" @(#)pcvt.4, 3.20, Last Edit-Date: [Sun Apr 2 18:23:39 1995]
+.\" Last Edit-Date: [Sun Jan 9 09:43:04 2000]
+.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.\" Man page pcvt(4) created after pcvt_ioctl.h on 13-Jan-93
.\" by Joerg Wunsch
.\"
-.\" updated for rel 2.10 (-hm)
-.\" updated for rel 2.20 (-hm)
-.\" updated for rel 3.00 (-jw)
-.\" updated for final rel 3.00 (-hm)
-.\" removed references to 386BSD (-hm)
-.\"
-.Dd February 27, 1994
+.Dd January 9, 2000
.Dt PCVT 4
.Sh NAME
.Nm pcvt ,
@@ -156,6 +151,18 @@ support
Help you to make money...
.El
+.Ss Scrollback
+Each virtual
+.Nm
+virtual terminal now has 8 pages of memory attached which are used as a
+scrollback buffer (definition of SCROLLBACK_PAGES).
+.Pp
+By using
+.Em SHIFT-PageUp
+and
+.Em SHIFT-PageDown
+it is possible to scroll the screen back and forward.
+
.Ss Configuration
The
.Nm pcvt
@@ -842,7 +849,7 @@ that no further development on pcvt is done for 386BSD 0.1 after release 3.00,
in fact, 386BSD support was dropped with release 3.20.
.Sh AUTHORS
Written by
-.An Hellmuth Michaelis Aq hm@hcshh.hcs.de
+.An Hellmuth Michaelis Aq hm@hcs.de
with much help from
.An Brian Dunford-Shore Aq brian@morpheus.wustl.edu
.br
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