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[supernova777]

maybe imic can help me to assemble some references here and tutorials on how to use openfirmware

perhaps the easiest thing to do in openfirmware is to view the device tree
by doing "dev / ls"
but this will usually scroll off the page so that u cant read it..
so my first question:

"how do i stop text from scrolling beyond the viewable area in openfirmware"?
i ended up doing "setenv scroll_lock=true"
and i thought that this didnt work,
*** maybe because its "scroll-lock" not "scroll_lock" ooops?

 but perhaps another command is needed to make it active or to reload environment variables or something?
i think this setting gets set into NVRAM because the next time i went into openfirmware the setting was set...

maybe imic is not available at this time for help with this..

[supernova777]

http://www.firmworks.com/QuickRef.html

this page is a great place to start!

heres some commands to help browse the device tree
similar somewhat to traversing a directory tree in dos or unix