Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: plasmoid!iang@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (Ian Gregory) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Jumping screen Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <565@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 28 Jul 89 01:49:20 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 36 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 86, message 5 of 18 In article <269@brazos.Rice.edu> simon@summer.british-telecom.co.uk (Simon E. Redding) writes: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 77, message 6 of 21 > >Our SUN 3/60 consoles have a nasty habit of scrolling in a jump fashion - >i.e. when you get to the bottom, the screen scrolls about 20 lines. This >is really annoying when using man. The only way we have found to stop >this is a fastboot. Any help? Yes, I can help with this, and also with another problem which was posted a little while ago, about getting the console back to black on white when it has been set to white on black. The short answer is to say "LOOK AT MAN CONSOLE(4S)" But to save you the trouble, I will go on to say that these things can be controlled using: ESC[p Black On White (SUNBOW) ESC[q White On Black (SUNWOB) ESC[#r Set scrolling (SUNSCRL) And also: ESC[s Reset terminal emulator (SUNRESET) Takes no parameters. Resets all modes to default, restores current font from PROM. Issuing a SUNRESET sets the console back to the state it is in immediately after booting, but only takes a fraction of a second. This seems to be exactly what you need, and can be done using the command: echo "ESC[s" > /dev/console (hit the escape key, don't type E S C) I hope this helps, Ian Gregory iang@plasmoid.dartmouth.edu