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From: Leonard Zettel <zettel@acm.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Handbook needs new section
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>Number:         37465
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Handbook needs new section
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    keramida
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 25 13:20:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:    Fri Oct 04 06:45:04 PDT 2002
>Last-Modified:  Fri Oct 04 06:45:04 PDT 2002
>Originator:     Leonard Zettel
>Release:        4.5
>Organization:
LenZ Computer Consulting
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>Fix:
 Add the following section to 3. Unix Basics

Console Navigation

Here are two simple techniques that can make using FreeBSD much more
powerful and enjoyable.

Alternate Consoles

The key combinations ALT-F1 through ALT-F6 give you simultaneous
parallel channels of access to the sytem, much as though you could seat 
yourself at any one of six different keyboard-monitor sets, each
with its own communication path to FreeBSD.  This can be useful
for simultaneously editing a file and observing the effects of
executing it or for examing the messages in stderr without disturbing
your main channel of communication with the system.

Scrolling the console text display.

Pushing the scroll lock key (on the upper right of your keyboard)
lets you use the arrow keys or the page up and page down keys to
navigate through the console text display, allowing access to portions
that have scrolled off the top of the monitor.  Pushing scroll lock
again restores normal display operation. 
     
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From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
To: Leonard Zettel <zettel@acm.org>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/37465: Handbook needs new section
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:31:21 -0700 (PDT)

 --- Leonard Zettel <zettel@acm.org> wrote:
 > >Number:         37465
 > >Category:       docs
 > >Synopsis:       Handbook needs new section
 
 > The key combinations ALT-F1 through ALT-F6 give you simultaneous
 > parallel channels of access to the sytem
 
 Information also needs to be added on how to limit these terminals, which,
 can
 be done by editing /etc/ttys, or through sysinstall(8).
 
 Thanks.
 
   -- Hiten
 
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Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida 
Responsible-Changed-By: keramida 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Sep 23 17:38:11 PDT 2002 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

I have something in the works about this. 
See http://www.freebsd.org/~keramida/diff/ttyvdoc.diff 

After 4.7-RELEASE is out, I'm ready to add some stuff. 
Committing it now would be nasty for translator teams. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=37465 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: keramida 
State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 4 06:43:13 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  

I just added a new section in revision 1.78 of 
doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml,v 
The changes should be visible on the web in less than 12 hours. 
Thanks for your bug report submission. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=37465 
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