Terminal paging.

[Gregory Dudek]

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  Personally, I don't really like the idea of terminal paging, and
in fact am usually happy with just ^S/^Q (although I never use a
terminal faster than 9600 baud).  For those who really want it though,
I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to hook it in as a user process
that would be "called" by the kernel.  A terminal preprocessor
 could be identified on a per-process basis.  This would allow
users to use a standard terminal pager, a unique one, or none at all.
  Clearly this would involve a certain overhead, but is it 
unacceptably large?  Several distributed file systems (eg. cocanet, I
think) use this type of extra-kernel service routine, and it seems
to work for them.
   Greg Dudek
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