Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request
From: sunuk!popeye!gjt@sun.com (Gary Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Auto-darkening of SUN screen
Message-ID: <8812161522.AA22783@popeye.>
Date: 24 Dec 88 23:11:45 GMT
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Original-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 88 15:22:27 GMT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 75, message 11 of 11
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Try the <screenblank> command. This blacks out the screen until you move
the mouse or touch a key. 

The manual actually statesthat the process will run until killed or by
logging out.Under SUN OS 4.0 logging out appears to leave the process
intact and therefore runs in the background regardless of whether any one
is logged in.

However it can be infuriating to watch the screen go black if the period
is set too low especially when reading SunSpots!

Gary Taylor,
SUN Microsystems UK 
Customer Training Instructor.