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Article #3003Re: Freeware Screen Saver (AutoIdle)
From: cromwell
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:20
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:20
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In article <168629AD2.DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu>, DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu (Joe Demon) writes: > In article <1992Sep10.034446.15868@samba.oit.unc.edu> > Rick.Igou@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Rick Igou) writes: >>Try AutoIdle. It's *absolutely* free, takes a miniscule amount of memory, >>and is elegantly simple. > Yow! Be careful with AutoIdle. I tried it this weekend on a Mac 512 > w/System 4.1 and it destroyed the System disk. I tried it on my Mac SE > with System 6.07, and it locked up the computer in a bad way. I still > have not figured out what is wrong (probably an init incompatibility), > but I have gone back to Morie (sp?). I've used autoidle on both those machines and a Classic with no problems. Init conflict maybe? I still use autoidle, because it doesn't interupt whats going on behind and its very small! -- Rick
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!cromwell From: cromwell@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Freeware Screen Saver (AutoIdle) Message-ID: <1992Sep14.172045.42991@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 14 Sep 92 17:20:45 CDT References: <1992Sep9.174239.23656@den.mmc.com> <1992Sep10.034446.15868@samba.oit.unc.edu> <168629AD2.DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 18