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From: wade@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Gary L. Wade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacsBug screen dimmer: Who wrote it?
Message-ID: <1352@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 88 19:10:14 GMT
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Reply-To: wade@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Gary L. Wade)
Organization: Kansas State University, Dept of Computing & Information Sciences
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In article <6922@ihlpf.ATT.COM> straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.) writes:
*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.

As for the author, his name is Tom Pittman, and if you want to contact him,
his mailing address is available via the AutoBlack program...if I remember
right, it comes up at the start when it is initialized.  If not, then it
might come up when you double-click on the program while holding down the
option and command keys....  Tom has been teaching here at K-State, but will
be going back into full practice as a software developer sometime next week.