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I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 in Windows Subsystem Linux. But it suddenly stopped me from scrolling up and down.

For example, when you want to know how the command tar works so you type tar --help, the result is so long that you should scroll up and down to read all of what it says.

But when I type tar --help, the result only shows that is permitted in current size of the terminal, so I can never read the upper part, only the last part. Scroll doesn't appear. How can I fix it?

Amith KK
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cozycoz
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What helped me was clicking on the opened WSL window properties, in the Layout tab, in Screen Buffer Size, setting Height 9999 (maximum allowed), with the option "Wrap text output on screen" checked:

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Jean Monet
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    This worked for me, thanks Jean! – Anirudh Apr 12 '22 at 10:59
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    Oh wow. All this time I had been thinking "Command History" under the Options tab was where scrollback was set, and was wondering why everyone else could go up to 9999 whereas I could only get it to 999. Just noticed this is the Layout tab. – Michael Oct 20 '22 at 18:46