OS/2 Screen Blanker

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1990 21:11

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note that it doesn't work with this month's UPDATE to 1.2, and will hang
your system requiring a reboot when the blanking occurs. 
From: ballard@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard)
Path: cheddar.cc.ubc.ca!ballard

A version modified to work with the new release can be obtained via 
anonymous FTP from mtsg.ubc.ca (128.189.103.1). "get os2:scrnbl12.zip" 
in binary mode. 

(For the curious:  in release 1.1, in order to be able to use the mouse to 
"unblank" the screen, it was necessary to explicitly open the $mouse dev
after doing the VioPopup used to blank the screen. I don't know if this was 
necessary with the first version 1.2, but I left the code in.  With the new 
release of 1.2, this call to DosOpen hangs somewhere inside the system, 
but it all works OK with the call removed.)


Alan Ballard                   | Internet: Alan_Ballard@mtsg.ubc.ca
University Computing Services  |   Bitnet: USERAB1@UBCMTSG
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From: news@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News)
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Subject: OS/2 Screen Blanker
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Date: 11 Feb 90 21:11:38 GMT
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