I do that already in some cases.

These are disjoint things. If scrollback is going to be added to the baseline
wscons driver then it should be done in a way which is most useful. Just 
because there's a pkgsrc package which does similiar things is really just
tangental to all of this.

James

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>Why not use the screen package? (pkgsrc/misc/screen)
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>Regards,
>Alistair
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>On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:35:12AM -0400, jchacon@genuity.net wrote:
>> How hard would it be to not have 1 buffer (which gets destroyed on VT
>> switch) and instead keep a running buffer per VT?
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>> This allows people to switch at will but scroll back if something was running
>> they need to look at.
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>> James
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>> >Sorry John. This is my first attempt at making anything work at the
>> >kernel-level.
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>> >The stuff I ported over from OpenBSD was the work of Aaron Campbell.
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>> >Just as in OpenBSD the buffer is destroyed when you switch VTs. It only
>> >can scroll back 8 pages maximum. There is no way to change that at the moment,
>> >although there should be. Also, there is no way to disable support for it.
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>> >It operates through vga and pcdisplay. The other work submitted previously,
>> >that I failed to notice until now, seems much more complete.
>> >
>> >Regards,
>> >Justin Reigle
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>> >On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:40:57AM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote
>> >> I believe that there is other work in this area. See Paolo Losi
>> >> <p.losi@lombardiacom.it>'s mail of Wed, 03 Jan 2001 01:38:35 +0100
>> >> (<3A52748B.6A0BA20A@lombardiacom.it>) to tech-kern, and the ensuing
>> >> thread.
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>> >> At the very least, your patch omits documentation, as well as credit
>> >> to the OpenBSD folks who did the original work. Both would need to be
>> >> rectified.
>> >> 
>> >> --jhawk
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