On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com<paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com>
> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:18 AM, econti <contiemi...@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

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