Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!linus!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!burgin
From: burgin@ecsvax.UUCP (Robert Burgin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Screen Blanker WARNING!!
Message-ID: <4516@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 22:43:10 GMT
References: <355@scubed.UUCP> <2750@omepd> <5678@iuvax.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Lines: 10
Keywords: BURNOUT
Summary: Why anyone would use BURNOUT with FANSI

In article <5678@iuvax.UUCP>, bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Bobmon) writes:
> If you have Fansi, why not use its screen-blanker?  (Unless Fansi can't blank
> the Hercules driver) I can see no reason to add resident screen-blanking code
> when Fansi is installed anyway.  The option is enabled with a switch in
> config.sys, which is documented in the on-disk manual.

BURNOUT allows the user to blank the screen manually by
pressing Ctrl + Shift.  As far as I know, there is no 
manual option with FANSI.  You just wait until the automatic
screen blank kicks in.