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TIP: You can scroll your console screens!
Miscellaneous Posted by Jason on Sunday March 18, @06:46PM
from the Scroll-Baby-Scroll dept.
If you have information that has scrolled up and off the screen at the system console, you can scroll up and view it- really!

Here's how...

Press the pause/break key and use the up and down arrows to scroll through the information in the console buffer.

To return to normal operation, press the pause/break key again (it's just a toggle).

To learn more about the screen console, read the man page:

man sc

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