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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: automatic screen dimming
Keywords: 1.0 screen dimming saver
Message-ID: <1001@nada.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 18:40:14 GMT
References: <10533@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: UT at Austin, Dept. of CS
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In article <10533@helios.TAMU.EDU> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick) writes:
>how about holding down your finger on the dim button for about 30
>seconds.

You might enjoy doing this, but I have better things to do with my
time (like respond to silly USENET posts :-).

Seriously, if an application like ScreenSaver can be written (that
works at least in a partial sense of the word), it shouldn't be too
difficult to make the degree of automatic dimming that already
occurs be adjustable.

-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas