[syslinux] To pause each screen text using syslinux

[Jin Suh]

Thanks. I just finished to bewak down each page with F1-F10. It seems working.
I just wanted to know if there is any feature in the syslinux but this way is
OK. Thanks for helping me.

Jin


--- Nazo <nazosan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/6/05, Jin Suh <jinssuh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello syslinux,
> >
> > I am trying to add a page break in the license file. Could you help me to
> add a
> > page break in the text file? I tried "^L" in every 25 lines but it didn't
> work.
> >
> > What I want to do is this. In the boot prompt, I want to display the
> license
> > file by pressing F2 but the file is about 300 lines so it just scrolls up
> very
> > quickly. Do you have any idea how to pause in each page?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jin
> >
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> The official means of managing this is to split into multiple files
> instead.  Eg, F1 would show page 1, F2 page 2, and so on.  I hate to
> say, but, syslinux doesn't support any kind of scrolling handling so
> far as I know.  It occurs to me that you might be able to come up with
> something using labels (page1, page2, etc) and the display command to
> display seperate pages as well, but, I haven't tested it.  It may be
> that a label is required to have boot options and will return an error
> at the very least (which would be a distracting out of place but
> mostly harmless line of text at the end of the page of text) or it may
> even do something such as restart syslinux and redraw the screen,
> erasing the text.  Well, the best solution of all would be to build a
> com32 module specifically for displaying text.  This method would give
> you the most control and do exactly what you want it to. 
> Unfortunately, for many this isn't possible.  Still, I think we're
> talking pretty simple C code to display text on the screen, wait for a
> keypress, then display more, repeat, and eventually exit.  Hopefully
> someone who knows more details can come along and tell you if it needs
> to do anything more complex such as some special command to start
> syslinux back up when it finishes.
>