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From: wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Moire 3 and Word 4
Keywords: moire word microsoft screen saver
Message-ID: <1730@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 90 17:03:19 GMT
References: <1051@pmafire.UUCP>
Reply-To: wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <1051@pmafire.UUCP> geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) writes:
>
>My problem occurs in Word 4.0.  Moire often blanks the screen, but
>nothing further happens (i.e. no "dancing moire patterns", just a dark
>screen).  If I move the mouse to the "sleep rect", Moire kicks in like
>it should.  And occaisonally Moire works properly when I'm simply
>inactive.

Well, this is the way I understand this "feature."  If the Mac is currently
involved in some sort of processing (busy), Moire will simply blank the screen
and will activate the pattern when the Mac is no longer busy.

Word has a bad habit (especially when typing) of doing alot of background junk,
like journaling keystrokes one key at a time and so forth.  I've even had it
disable background tasks (causing my clock to halt until I manually restart it).
This isn't so troublesome as to make me discontinue its use, but it can be
annoying at times.

Bill Taroli
WWTAROLI@RODAN.ac.syr.edu