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From: pvo3366@neptune.uucp (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Sun color 3/60 on NeWS
Summary: use the 'switcher'
Message-ID: <6278@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 2 Sep 88 23:12:15 GMT
References: <610@modular.UUCP>
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Reply-To: pvo3366@neptune.UUCP (Paul O'Neill)
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Organization: College of Oceanography, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, Or.
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In article <610@modular.UUCP> hagen@modular.UUCP (Jeffrey R. Hagen) writes:
>In NeWS on a Sun color 3/60, if you forget to open up a console window
>and you write something to the console, the black and white console
>message scribbles over the NeWS screen. Repair doesn't clear it.
>
>psh
>PaintRoot
>^D
>
> doesn't clear it. The only resort I know is to restart the news_server.
>  ............

You need to get the overlay plane back to specifying the 8-bit frame
buffer in those areas where it is now specifying the monochrome frame
buffer.  

Execute the following from any terminal:

		switcher -e 0



Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251