From: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser)
Subject: Re: Terminal window scroll bars?
21 Sep 1998 01:08:08 -0700
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To: karipid AT scotch DOT mae DOT cornell DOT edu (Daniel Karipides)
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Hello Daniel, you wrote:
>>>My favorite telnet clients all have scroll bars that allow you to look back
>>>more than 24 lines.  Can bash do the same?
>>
>>It can on Windows NT's cmd.exe, but not with Windows 9.x's command.com !
>>On NT you can set it through the system menue properites of your cmdwindow.
>However, if you enable this, then less no longer works.  (When you leave less
>you are at the top of your "buffer" and must hit return many times to 
>scroll through it.)  Or at least, this is what happens to me.
less-332 works perfectly here with a buffer of 1000 lines.
-- 
bye, Michael
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