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From: acy@abic.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Leaving on your UNIX PC
Message-ID: <756@abic.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 08:48:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 08:48:31 1986
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Organization: Allen-Bradley Co., Highland Heights, OH 44143
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> >   I suggest that you leave your UNIX PC on all the time, but when not in use,
> >you should turn down the brightness control on the screen. This will make life
> >much pleasanter on the phospher.
> >
> A new feature of the UNIXPC 3.0 release is a command scrset(1), that will
> automatically turn off the screen after a given length of time with no
> keyboard input.  This sounds like a very useful command to have except
> for one small detail.
> 
> I cannot find it!  The documentation says it should be in /bin/scrset, but
> it is not there.  Has anyone used this command, (does anyone even have it).
> 
> 				Tom Tkacik
> 		...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!uvaee!tet

	The reason that you can't find it is because it doesn't work.
If you look in section 7 under window you will find the ioctl command
to implement scrset.  No problem, just right your own, right?
Wrong!  This feature will lock up your keyboard.  It seems to
work for a bit, but if you leave the screen blanked for too long
or if you let it blank and then unblank several times the keyboard
locks up.  I called AT&T and the conversation went something like this.

Poor User: When I use the SCRSET ioctl command me keyboard locks up.
AT&T: That's right.
(Uncomfortable silence.)
Poor User: Uhhhh.  Is there a fix?
AT&T: No.
(Uncomfortable silence.)
Poor User: Uhhhh.  Thank you.
AT&T: You're welcome.  Thank you for choosing AT&T.
-- 

			At least that's the way I see it,

			Adnan Yaqub @ Allen-Bradley Company Inc.
			Industrial Computer Division
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