On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:48:44PM -0800, L Vogtmann wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 09:09 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:26:13PM -0800, Paul A. Thomas > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Searching reveals ways to pause help files if you don't wish to use a > > > pipe command... is there a keyboard stroke which corresponds to the > > > 'pause' key when the initial boot takes place? The commands ^S ^Q or > > > Left Shift PgUp & PgDn would seem to be made for browsing help files or > > > other text displays. > > > > ^S and ^Q were far more useful on 300 baud modems. > > > > Use a pager -- more, less, most, etc. > > I think he means for the boot up messages from the kernel. You can't use a > pager there.
You can, however, use ^S and ^Q - at least on any Linux machine I've ever used. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
