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From: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Screen savers for SCO Sys V/386 Console?
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Date: 14 Nov 89 19:00:43 GMT
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swatt@cup.portal.com (Steven Edward Watt) writes:
>  Does anybody know of a replacement console driver for SCO Unix V/386
>that does video blanking after 10 minutes?

I'm not sure if it's worth putting more goo in the kernel for this.

At one time I ran a shell script via cron which just did a "who" and
echoed a "^L" to screens which have been idle after a while.  If you
want to get fancier, you can determine the current screen being displayed
(a program recently posted to comp.unix.xenix shows how) and just clear
that one if it's been idle for a while.

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Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337
Someday the whole country will be one vast "Metroplex" - Zippy's friend Griffy
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