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From: sjc@mips.UUCP (Steve "The" Correll)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: paging in the terminal driver
Message-ID: <796@quacky.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 17:39:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: quacky.796
Posted: Thu Oct 15 17:39:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 11:04:50 EDT
References: <573@elxsi.UUCP> <682@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
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Keywords: output pagination

In article <682@its63b.ed.ac.uk>, adam@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ERCF02 Adam Hamilton) writes:
> Several years ago when I first met UNIX, the UKUUG distribution had a terminal
> driver which did the paging function. (I.e. no more than a screenful of output
> without some terminal input, like a space).

I too had the privilege once of working on a system (thanks to jdb at
s1.mordor.gov) which provided an ioctl call to enable paging and specify the
screen size. Despite  all of the aesthetic arguments against putting this into
the kernel, in practice it was just plain pleasant to use.

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...decwrl!mips!sjc						Steve Correll