At Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:22:15 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, henry wrote:
> >Sometimes I make Makefile ,I get lots of error messages so that I cant look
> >them in time.
> >I try to "make > tmp.log" , but it fail (I cant dump those error message into
> >tmp.log).
> >Could someone show a good solution ?
> 
> I use shift-pageup to scroll back up in the xterm or console.

and remember Ctrl+s and Ctrl+q for XON/XOFF flow control.


in other words:

Ctrl+s will block the process from writing more to the screen, Ctrl+q
will allow it again. very useful if you want to pause rapidly
scrolling output.

-- 
 - Gus


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