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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Terminal paging in the kernel
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Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 20:02:13 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 10 20:02:13 1984
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Mats Wichmann observes, in part:
    
    .......... If there were a way to obtain this information for each 
    terminal WITHOUT hardcoding it into the kernel, this portion of the 
    paging dispute would go away - but I don't see any way to do that.....

"Hardcoding into the kernel"??!?!??  I wish people would assume that
the advocates of in-kernel pagination aren't completely crazy.  Our
system takes some pains to get the value of $TERM correct, and the code
that enables paging uses $TERM to find out (from termcap) the size and
whatnot of the terminal screen.  This isn't hardcoded into the kernel
any more than vi's terminal handling is!!
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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