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From: bgeer@javelin.es.com (Bob Geer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: After Dark for Windows?
Keywords: screen saver
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.160615.14468@javelin.es.com>
Date: 10 Mar 91 16:06:15 GMT
References: <2194@borg.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: bgeer%javelin@dsd.es.com
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Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
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winslett@widor.cs.unc.edu (Michael Winslett) writes:
>Has anyone tried After Dark for Windows from Berkeley Systems?  I have been
>using Screenpeace, and although it works pretty well, it doesn't blank the
>screen when a DOS process is running full-screen, and it doesn't
>properly detect activity when a DOS window is active, causing it to blank the
>screen when it shouldn't.  

FYI: I'm currently using IdleWild from MS's entertainment pack.  It
doesn't blank the screen when my window'd Kermit 3.01's downloading &
writing progress stats to screen as the foreground window, but does
blank when I background it (stats updates continue in background).
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