On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Luck. It should in theory work to have no default pager (though that means > > you cannot use `swapon' at run time either), but there are likely some > > quirky assumptions being broken by that, and Thomas and I will be > > Completely Unsurprised if trying to run without a default pager screws up > > and/or dies in weird ways. > > In theory a default pager would not be called until needed, but the > assumption in the kernel as well as a few little tidbits of Hurd code > is that it is always there.
I have never used any pager before (no default pager), only a few times I had a swap partition. So at least on one system it worked without any pager. I did most of the 100 packages in the archive w/o pagers, some of them were long compilations. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
