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From: elk@dragon.cis.ohio-state.edu (Edwin L King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Darkness screensaver, Shiva Ethergate (unrelated)
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Date: 19 Sep 90 15:40:59 GMT
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  I recently FTP'd the Darkness screensaver from
sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Darkness is not an INIT. It is a background
application that runs under multifinder. Since I already have many
more INITs and cdevS than I feel comfortable with, I thought this was
a great idea. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. At least, not the way I
want it to.
  If I start it manually after booting up, it seems to work OK, but if
I specify it as a startup application, it starts causing all sorts of
problems -- all those system hangs I was hoping to prevent!
  Anybody have an idea what is going on?
  I also have the _Launch application set as a startup application.
_Launch is an icon dock written by the same guy that wrote Darkness,
so I would hope they are compatible.

.....

  In an unrelated topic, has anyone ever tried hooking a modem up to a
Shiva Ethergate and using it for remote dial-in access. the docs say
you should be able to, but it isn't quite working for me. I can dial
out of the network with the modem just fine. but when I try to dial-in
(using Shiva's special cdev -- and yes, I ran the installer) it
connects with the modem, but is unable to hook up to the network. I
get back a dialog telling me to check my connections and settings and
try again. 

thanks!