How can I prevent terminal boot messages from being cleared

[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 21:37 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> Tim, I apologise for wasting your time.

No apology necessary.  I needed to know how to do this on one of my
computers, and hadn't yet looked at how.  You almost handed me the
answer on a plate.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.9-91.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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