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

djk djk at tobit.co.uk
Tue Dec 29 16:48:55 GMT 2015


On 29/12/15 14:39, Martin Davies G0HDB wrote:
> I've tried changing '$maxshist' to 2500 and now, when I start the console, I see: 'Page length
> is now 2500' but when I do a sh/co/no and then scroll back I still can't see the start of the list -
> it still disappears under the system messages in the top of the screen.

I would venture that it isn't big enough. You could try doing a manual 
'set/page 0' after starting the console to see whether that does what 
you want.

>
> I see there's another variable in Console.pm called '$maxkhist' that is currently set to 100;
> what does that one do?

It is the number of commands that you can up/down arrow in the command 
window.

Dirk G1TLH



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