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Article #930Screen Blanker (was Re: Glaring Blue Bar)
From: Harish Pillay
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 17:56
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 17:56
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In article <14430@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> osbornk@uther.CS.ORST.EDU (Kasey S. Osborn) writes:
|In article <2244@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
||Aha! A kindly Microsoft employee finally told me that the glaring blue
||bar that appears at the top of the screen in text mode can be gotten
||rid of with the command:
|| HELP OFF
||
||For my next question, does anyone have:
|| 1. A screen blanker for OS/2
|| 2. A ram disk for OS/2
|
|Specifically, the glaring bar is caused by the $i parameter in the line
|
|prompt $i[$p]
|
|in HELP.CMD. Customizing the prompt without $i also makes this beast die.
|
|Screen blanker? Haven't heard of any. Ram disk? One comes with OS/2.
|In my CONFIG.SYS I have:
|
|device=c:\os2\vdisk.sys 256
|
|to allocate a 256K ram disk. Handy for a destination for my TMP variable.
|
|Kasey
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------
|osbornk@cs.orst.edu UUCP: ...!{hplabs!hp-pcd}!orstcs!mist!osbornk
There was a piece of software that was posted on the newsgroup called
desktop that featured a screen blanking capability. I'm not sure if
it is available at simtel20.arpa, but if you have ftp access, you can
get it from my machine at temasek.ece.orst.edu [128.193.48.123] via
anonymous ftp from the /pub directory. There should be only one file there.
Enjoy.
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Harish Pillay harish@ece.orst.edu
Oregon State University
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