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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:39:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C7ED61D.5030406@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimaJ2PZuvnS_Srxc5OoRthqOKSm-civixC5RqgT@mail.gmail.com>

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Paul Hartman 
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com 
> <mailto:paul.hartman%2Bgentoo@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:18 AM, econti <contiemilio@alice.it
>     <mailto:contiemilio@alice.it>> wrote:
>     > Hi all
>     > is it possible to page the output of "emerge -NDpvu world" in a
>     terminal?
>     > 'emerge -NDpvu world | more' does not work.
>
>     If you use screen you can then use the scrollback it provides
>
> Or adjust your terminal preferences to have a lot of scrollback room.  
> The defaults tend to be in the range of 0 to 500 lines.  I often set 
> the value to 30,000 or more, with no noticeable bad effects.
>
>
> -- 
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>

Hmmm, whatever you set it to, you will be a few lines short.  The error 
will always be just above what you can scroll back to.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-01 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-30 16:18 [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world" econti
2010-08-30 16:33 ` Paul Hartman
2010-09-01 22:30   ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-09-01 22:39     ` Dale [this message]
2010-09-01 23:14       ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-03 15:45         ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-30 16:57 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-08-30 21:23   ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2010-09-01 13:34     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-09-01 13:38   ` [gentoo-user] " econti
2010-09-01 20:57     ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-09-01 22:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Kevin O'Gorman

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