Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!psivax!tommie
From: tommie@psivax.UUCP (Tom Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Screen Blanker WARNING!!
Message-ID: <2005@psivax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 19:17:26 GMT
References: <355@scubed.UUCP> <2750@omepd> <161@mccc.UUCP> <1530@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: tommie@psivax.UUCP (Tom Levin)
Distribution: na
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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Keywords: BURNOUT

>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!
>
>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!

So set the time-out to 10 minutes...or just hit a non-destructive key
(such as Shift or Alt)...or down-load in the background using "Mirror".
No biggie.
-- 
Tom Levin  (The Robo-Programmer)          {ihnp4|sdcrdcf|ttidca|scgvaxd|nrcvax|
part man, part machine...                  jplpro|hoptoad |csun|quad1|bellcore|
all hacker!                                logico|rdlvax}!psivax!tommie