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From: derek@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Derek J. LeLash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Moire Bug? Also Flex
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Date: 28 Jul 88 16:11:06 GMT
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In article <11010034@hpfcdc.HP.COM> bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) writes:

>>Great news - but have you fixed the bug that causes the Imagewriter to
>>(under MacWrite na dmayber WriteNow) to print nothing but "Blackness" the
>>moment Moire kicks in????

>I haven't noticed "blackness" under WriteNow, though have seen it often under
>MacWrite. Currently, I just have this mental "kicker" that tells me, "when
>printing in MacWrite, put the mouse in the lower right corner". I really
>only use MacWrite when I happen to double-click on a MACA document by mistake
>instead of using WriteNow's format converter. I hope WriteNow 2.0 arrives
>soon!!

Oh great...
I've just started using Moire over Flex (which I liked) because of the latter's
inability to operate concurrently with Imagewriter printing, even with "Enable
Background Events," and now I hear this. I'm afraid to even try it. Is there
a screen saver out there that will:
- Do something vaguely interesting on-screen.
- Allow printing, etc. to go on "behind it" even in the case of MacWrite Image-
  writer printing, where the application does not generate any screen activity
  during printing.
- Allow some control over timing, "always sleep" and "never sleep" areas, etc.

Both Flex and Moire come close to meeting these requirements, but have the
problems mentioned above. Any ideas out there?

Derek
     Derek LeLash '88       |"People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles
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