[Dxspider-support] Increasing size of scrollback buffer in sysop console

[djk]

On 29/12/15 12:08, Martin Davies G0HDB wrote:
> Hello all, I hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas and is rarin' to go in 2016!
>
> I regularly use the sysop console on my GB7DXC-5 node (running on a headless Raspberry
> Pi so all accesses are via puTTY and SSH) and have wondered for a while how to increase
> the size of the console's scrollback buffer so that I can see, for example, the complete listing
> of a 'sh/co/no' command.  Currently when I do this I can't scroll back to the start of the listing
> because the start of the list disappears under the 'system' messages in what I understand is
> the defined as the 'top screen'.
>
> I know I could set the page length to enable me to see the listing approx 60 lines at a time,
> but I would much prefer to be able to scroll back as far as I need to.
>
> I run the 'local' version of console.pl that's in /spider/local, to avoid tampering with the
> released version that lives in /spider/perl, and I've already made a couple of minor changes to
> the local version of Console.pm to alter some of the fonts used by the console, but because
> of my unfamiliarity with PERL I can't see which variable(s) to change to alter the size of the
> scrollback buffer so I'll be very grateful for any help and guidance.

Copy /spider/perl/Console.pm to /spider/local

In there is a variable called '$maxshist' which is set to 500. Change it 
to something bigger. But don't go too mad - a few thousand should be 
sufficient.

Dirk G1TLH