A sort-of-substitute for a weak terminal is to use control keys and helper commands. For example, control-S or its equivalent mapping will "stop" text from scr

A sort-of-substitute for a weak terminal is to use control keys and helper commands. For example, control-S or its equivalent mapping will "stop" text from scrolling, and control-Q will resume it. A control-Z will suspend the process entirely, at which point (in most shells) "fg" will resume it in the foreground and "bg" in the background. If you run the entire process through a pipe or create a file (e.g. with "tee"), it is often easier to control the output and then you can't really lose anything if it happened to scroll by too fast. Piping to "less" or "more" gives you things like page-by-page output and search. Yes, good terminals handle all of this too, but it's very useful to become comfortable with the Unix commands and keys that do the same kinds of things.