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Article #7HELP: Egablank or something's eating my keyboard!
From: Mark Mackey
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 12:34
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 12:34
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This is my last HELP line for a while. I promise.
I'm running the screen saver EGABLANK on my system and I've noted some unusual
behaviour. The screen blanks fine, Ok, no problem. You can hit a key and get
your scrren back, even. However, _if_ and _only if_ the screen's been blank
for over 10 minutes or so then when the screen is restored DOS reads all
keyboard input as control characters. You hit 'D' , you get 'Control-D',
whether you like it or not. This continues until you hit Ctrl-Break, upon
which everything is fine. Weird.
On one occasion the screen was restores with total keyboard lock EXCEPT
for the space bar, believe it or not. No Ctrl-Break, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no
nothing, just as many spaces as you want at your DOS prompt. Cute, but
not overly useful.
This really isn't a _major_ hassle, but it has me intruiged as to why
it's doing this (and how!). Egablank worked fine on my old 286, and it
doesn't seem to make any difference whether I load it high or not.
So, 1) What gives?
2) Anyone out there know of any screen savers which aren't antisocial?
Thanks in advance.
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