scroll back?

[Kerry Hoath]

Shift-pageup and shift-pagedown activate the scrollback
feature in Linux but it doesn.t work with speakup
to my knowledge.
I use screen for this with the control-leftbracket keystroke and scroll back that way.
To make a command show usage and page the result do this:
ls --help 2>&1|less
the 2>&1 redirects standard error to standard output so you can page the result
through a pager.

regards, Kerry.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:33:10PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi listers. I have encountered the problem of let's say you are looking at usage for a particular program. And it scrolls to the next screen. Is there a way to be able to look at the previous screen? Like does the screen or the operating system keep a temporary buffer of the previous screen until refreshed by another shell command? What I'm refering to is something similar to a scroll back buffer that I believe used to exist in Dos. Does such a thing exist under Linux? I thought I read in some howto that the keystroke for this was alt+backspace or something? Thanks! 
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