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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FadeToBlack1.0/SuperClock 3.0 bug
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Date: 9 Feb 89 15:52:10 GMT
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In article <12136@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
#>
#>Came across this little bug just this evening.  Don't know whether
#>it's SuperClock's fault or Fade To Black's, but here it is:
#>
#>After two minutes, Fade To Black clicks on.  After it is turned
#>off with some event, SuperClock no longer updates the clock
#>in the menubar until the menubar is altered in some way:
#>open a DA, launch a document, quit, etc.  SuperClock then
#>redraws and everything returns to normal until Fade To Black
#>is executed again.
#>
#>My configuration:
#>
#>Mac Plus, System 6.0.2, Finder.  Only INITs/cdevs active:
#>SuperClock 3.0 and Fade To Black installed in the system.
#>
#>I believe the author of Super Clock is on the net, I
#>don't know about Fade To Black's author...
#>
#>Ken
#>
#>
#>Ken Hancock  '90                   | BITNET/UUCP/
#>Personal Computing Ctr Consultant  |   INTERNET:  isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
#>-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
#>DISCLAIMER?  I don't get paid enough to worry about disclaimers.

I'd like to add that Fade to Black also disables TOPS, i.e., it
makes it appear as though a server is turned off. Moire Idle does
not but unfortunately it doesn't go on automatically.

Steve Goldfield