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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacsBug screen dimmer: Who wrote it?
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Date: 12 Dec 88 18:55:24 GMT
References: <15580@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <15580@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> viking@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Jon W. Backstrom) writes:
>Does anyone have any experience with the MacsBug screen dimmer?  This
>application is only 2,422 bytes long and seems to work well with all
>68000 macs (not the Mac II).  It installs itself with a message in the
>
>I've seen a debugger called MacsBug by Dan Allen (version 5.4) and I'm
>wondering if the programs had a common origin.  (The debugger has no
>similar functionality...just the same name).
>
>Is this screen dimmer a public domain program?  Shareware?  Does

I'll try a shot at this one:

The screen dimmer was originally entitled MacsBug so that it could masquerade
as MacsBug and get loaded in at boot time (before INIT31 auto loading days).
More recently, it has been renamed "AutoBlack", and is now a real "INIT".
It has no relation with MacsBug other than that (I assume) they are mutually
exclusive.

As I do not use it, I forget the author.  I think it is shareware.
-- 
Rich Straka     att!ihlpf!straka

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