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From: duncan@spectre.vlsi.sgi.com (Donald Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Screen blankers
Summary: yep
Keywords: only small adjustments
Message-ID: <73922@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 1 Nov 90 21:42:47 GMT
References: <12681@chaph.usc.edu> <72802@sgi.sgi.com> <73038@sgi.sgi.com> <205@rc6.urc.tue.nl>
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In article <205@rc6.urc.tue.nl>, tgcpwd@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Wim van Dorst) writes:
> I have some small remarks on the things I had to adjust to _get_ it to
> work. First the name of cdif.uue should have been cdif.tar. Of course :-)
> I didn't read the preceding text properly, so I didn't realise it was
> a tar file and did stupid things with it. Well, no big deal, stupid me.
> 

Now that I have shar on my system...


> The other thing is:
> In clock.c I had to remove the declarations
> 	PUBLIC time_t dtimeout;
> 	PUBLIC time_t displaytime=DEFAULTTIMEOUTORSOMETHING;
> because in clock.c is included the header file kernel.h, which again
> included glo.h, which defines dtimeout and displaytime to be EXTERN.
> dtimeout and displaytime get therefore automatically declared PUBLIC
> in table.c, so they were declared twice. I moved the initialization 
> of the variables to the function init_clock(), like in 
> 	dtimeout = displaytime = DEFAULTTIMEOUTORSOMETHING;
> Also I removed the declaration
> 	PUBLIC ... mode_port;
> from console.c for the same reason.
> 

After looking at the code I realize of course that you
are correct.  I wasn't paying attention to
what table.c was doing.  Now I understand :-)

Also note that if you declare DEFAULTTIMEOUTORSOMETHING to be 0, the
timeout feature is disabled.


I'll post update cdiffs in the near future.


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~Don WB6QMS
duncan@sgi.com