On Thursday 08 February 2007 01:08:55 M Harris wrote: > On Sunday 04 February 2007 17:20, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > Probably I'm not either. I've been using IBM k/b's for years, but I have > > no idea what the Scroll Lock key does. I suppose it's one of those > > stupid questions. Does it work in UNIX? Linux? Windows? CPM? It > > doesn't light up the Scroll Lock light on my keyboard, when I try the > > key.
In FreeBSD, Scroll Lock allows you to scroll back & forth thru the pervious screens on a text terminal by turning Scroll Lock on & using the arrows key &/or Page Up/Page Dn keys, which is extremely useful if you aren't in X. It also does the same thing in konsole (which isn't as useful because you can scroll back anyway, but it keeps things consistant with the text terminal behaviour). Konsole even does this on Linux! I'm new to Suse & linux and I really miss this feature when I'm not working in X. It's a shame Linux doesn't have it. FreeDOS has adopted this feature too and Netware 6.5/OES Netware allows you to scroll though the history on some screens (though without using scroll lock). Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
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