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External Pager

Although the OSF provides guidelines for writing an external pager, these guidelines are (at best) provisional. Digital believes that the complexity and efficiency of the Digital UNIX Version 4.0 memory management system makes it impractical at this time to provide a sensible interface for an external pager.


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