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Fade to Black (version 3.1.1)

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From: Kevin Rushforth
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 06:59
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I recently downloaded version 3.1.1 of Fade to Black and I really like
it.  I appreciate your sharing it with the Macintosh community.  It
does everything I would want a screen-saver to do.

Unfortunately, I have discovered an incompatibility between Fade to
Black and one of the applications I use (MacCalc).  This problem may
very well be in MacCalc, since all other applications seem to run
fine.  When I am in MacCalc and Fade to Black does its thing, the
finder icon (i.e. the "Macintosh" icon) bounces around the screen
rather than MacCalc's icon.  This is the only application to do this.
The real problem, however, is that when I run a large spreadsheet,
MacCalc gets an (unspecified) error when re-computing the spreadsheet.
I am running system version 6.0.2.

Have you had any other problems like this reported to you (either with
MacCalc or another application mis-behaving when Fade to Black is
running)?  I would appreciate any info you could give me.  I would
really like to run Fade to Black all of the time, but right now, I
can't install it unless I know I won't be using MacCalc for a long
period of time.  Thanks.

Btw, the problem also occurs when using version 3.0 of Fade to Black.

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From: kcr%rushforth@Sun.COM (Kevin Rushforth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Fade to Black (version 3.1.1)
Keywords: Fade, Black, MacCalc
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Date: 11 May 89 06:59:52 GMT
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Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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