Better yet, who remembers how to use them! I've got a nice old IBM InfoWindow 3153 which is working nicely with an Ubuntu Server 10.04 virtual machine (meaning yes, the serial port is tunneled through the host, with no issues). The only issue I'm having is the usage of "pages"; the built-in memory that the terminal has, which you can use to run different commands and "store" the output in various ways. My issue mostly lies in commands that produce results which are longer than one screen. The terminal has a mode where you can turn on "auto pages", which basically means if, for example, I do an "ls" command which produces more than one screen worth of results, it will start filling the other pages in its memory with the overflow automatically. It's pretty nice, but it doesn't seem to have a way to clear all the pages at once, and having data left over on various pages really messes with programs like lynx, as you see remnants of the stored buffers all over the web pages you're trying to view. If I turn off auto pages, I can obviously manually switch to other pages to run a command, but if the command goes over one page length, I lose the overflow -- it doesn't move onto another empty page. I'm sure there's some way to tell it to redirect output to multiple pages, but I'm not sure how to do it. (Or, at least I'm hopeful there's a way!)
I'd really appreciate your help in figuring this out, and I'd also love to hear about your experiences with the green monsters!
-Dan
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