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From: q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Twilight, GShrinkit, crash....
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.155220.862@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 19:52:20 GMT
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In article <1990Nov5.141614.28696@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>,
dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes:
>
> EEW! I noticed something else, Twilight kicks in when it "shouldn't."
> I mean that it starts up when the computer really is working on
> something. I did a very large Finder copy (from the latest developer
> CD - about 26MB of stuff). During the copy, Twilight kicked in and I
> had to babysit the machine to wake it back up every now and then (the
> copy stops when Twilight kicks in). Perhaps Twilight should be changed
> so that it kicks in when there is no OS activity as well as kbd/mouse
> idleness.

If I recall, if you place the mouse pointer in the bottom 5 lines of the
screen, Twilite won't kick in.  Then again, you could go download
Screen Blank INIT (which is free) and not worry about file copying or printing
being stopped. <big grin>

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....................................................  comes first.
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