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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Moire stopping downloads? (was: Do screensavers do anything?)
Message-ID: <27102@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 17 Oct 89 12:10:39 GMT
References: <1271@orbit.UUCP>
Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
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In article <1271@orbit.UUCP> pj@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Paul Jacoby) writes:
>Strange, I use Moire 3.0 all the time with ZTerm 0.8, and have never had a
>problem with Moire stopping processing.  In fact, on my SE/30, Moire has
>proven to be the least intrusive screen saver that I have tried.  Your
>mileage, of course, may vary.  But I've never had Moire interrupt.  When my
>backup program is busy cranking stuff out to the DC-2000, Moire generally
>doesn't even kick in, or otherwise goes to just a black screen.
>  Can you give some more details, Ken?

  This was on a 2 MB 512KE, running 6.0.3. I was using VersaTerm under MF,
doing both standard MacBinary downloads from a local BBS as well as Kermit
via dialup to a Unix host. To be fair, I had Moire configured for the "Dyson's
Folly" pattern, and didn't try any of the others to see if there was a
difference. As soon as Moire kicked in (by timing out, or by mouse-in-sleep
corner), packet ack's stopped cold, as though VersaTerm had been switched
out and never got any more processor time until Moire was deactivated.

  I also noticed (again with the "Dyson's Folly") that some lines would
get "detached" from the moving pattern, and stay on the screen forever
(well, at least until I moved the mouse...) 

  Haven't tried Moire 3.0 on the IIcx yet...will do so, and see if the
problem is machine-specific...

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