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From: Brent Webster
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:00

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I'm running the xnlock screen saver under Openwin3.0 / SunOS 4.1.1.
My question is once xnlock is invoked, are all updates and
refreshes of the "other" windows suspended and queued up?

I had a large tar files containings some 3000+ files.  In a "cmdtool" window,
I began to untar it with the verbose option set. I xnlocked the screen and left
for the night. When I unlocked the screen the next morning, numerous lines flashed
by my screen but it was still doing the untar.  The untar job should have taken
about an hour.

Are there any "xset" settings or whatever to prevent this problem?
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