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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Do screen-savers do anything useful?
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Date: 12 Oct 89 16:21:24 GMT
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In article <25674.25331193@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
>...My point
>is, you've got everything to gain and nothing to lose in using a screen
>saver, so I don't see why anyone would be so against it.

I used to use a screen saver, but I took it out of the system when I found it
interfering with some applications.  Not ALL applications can handle the screen
update properly, and not all screen savers let the application run while they
are pfutzing with the screen.  Try starting a long build in MPW.  When the
screen saver kicks in, everything goes to H***, sometimes including a crash.
Maybe, when I can again assure that the screen saver never kicks in unless
everything is idle, I will go back to using one again. [I used one for many
months, happily, before I finally put it aside].

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)