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update pcvt manual page to document the scrollbackbuffer usage

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.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1995 Hellmuth Michaelis, Brian Dunford-Shore,
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 2000 Hellmuth Michaelis, Brian Dunford-Shore,
.\" Joerg Wunsch and Holger Veit.
.\"
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)pcvt.4, 3.20, Last Edit-Date: [Sun Apr 2 18:23:39 1995]
.\" Last Edit-Date: [Sun Jan 9 09:43:04 2000]
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.\" Man page pcvt(4) created after pcvt_ioctl.h on 13-Jan-93
.\" by Joerg Wunsch
.\"
.\" updated for rel 2.10 (-hm)
.\" updated for rel 2.20 (-hm)
.\" updated for rel 3.00 (-jw)
.\" updated for final rel 3.00 (-hm)
.\" removed references to 386BSD (-hm)
.\"
.Dd February 27, 1994
.Dd January 9, 2000
.Dt PCVT 4
.Sh NAME
.Nm pcvt ,
@ -156,6 +151,18 @@ support
Help you to make money...
.El
.Ss Scrollback
Each virtual
.Nm
virtual terminal now has 8 pages of memory attached which are used as a
scrollback buffer (definition of SCROLLBACK_PAGES).
.Pp
By using
.Em SHIFT-PageUp
and
.Em SHIFT-PageDown
it is possible to scroll the screen back and forward.
.Ss Configuration
The
.Nm pcvt
@ -842,7 +849,7 @@ that no further development on pcvt is done for 386BSD 0.1 after release 3.00,
in fact, 386BSD support was dropped with release 3.20.
.Sh AUTHORS
Written by
.An Hellmuth Michaelis Aq hm@hcshh.hcs.de
.An Hellmuth Michaelis Aq hm@hcs.de
with much help from
.An Brian Dunford-Shore Aq brian@morpheus.wustl.edu
.br