Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Physics:crl From: crl@pur-phy.UUCP (Charles LaBrec) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Terminal paging in the kernel Message-ID: <1237@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 20:48:30 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1237 Posted: Fri Mar 9 20:48:30 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 01:10:34 EST References: <6841@cca.UUCP> <690@ihuxx.UUCP> <216@masscomp.UUCP> <334@dual.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Physics Dept. Lines: 13 There is a way to tell the tty driver paging info w/o hardcoding it--simply add or create a structure that tells it some terminal characteristics like line and page length. Another useful piece of info would be how to do a deleting backspace--I know of one type that uses '^H' as home cursor! This has shades of TOPS-20 in it--whenever it did a backwards delete on a terminal it knew, it actually did a move backwards and a delete to end of page. Not only did this make an erasing kill line or word less painful at slow speeds, but is also cleared the remainder of the page if some screen oriented program screwed up. Charles LaBrec UUCP: pur-ee!Physics:crl, purdue!Physics:crl INTERNET: crl @ pur-phy.UUCP