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From: jsin@CS.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Screen Blanker WARNING!!
Message-ID: <11011@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
Date: 2 Feb 88 15:51:57 GMT
References: <355@scubed.UUCP> <2750@omepd> <161@mccc.UUCP> <1530@bgsuvax.UUCP>
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Keywords: BURNOUT

In article <1530@bgsuvax.UUCP> ritzenth@bgsuvax.UUCP (Phil Ritzenthaler) writes:
>In article <161@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>> Since FANSICONSOLE includes a screen blanker, why would anyone want to
>> use both programs???
>
>FANSI does NOT check to see if something is written onto the screen, it looks
>for keypresses.  If there are none in the alotted time, there goes the screen!
>
Yeah, When you are running a mouse-based program, like the paint brush,
It's a pain in the butt to have the screen go blank on you.

>This can get tiring REAL FAST when you are downloading (or uploading for that
>matter) a file and while you are watching the process, the screen blanks out on
>you!
>
This has not bothered me so much, since I don't like to sit around
waiting for down/up load to finish.  I use Procomm 2.4.2, which beeps
when it finishes the transfer.  

Hmmmm.  When I ftp a large file, the screen
will go blank, and then when ftp is done and writes on the screen to 
let you know, the screen will come back. I can sit across the room and 
ocassionally look at the screen to find out when ftp is done.
I use version 2.0 of fansi.
But, I still have the problem of using the mouse-based programs,
whether or not I load the fconsole before loading the mouse driver.
Perhaps it can only detect non-graphical screen writes. Anyone know
how that works?

Just thinking out loud.

John (Jonghoon) Sin
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