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Subject: [comp.os.os2] OS/2 Screen Blanker
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Date: 12 Feb 90 20:11:54 GMT
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Archive-name: os2-screen-blanker/11-Feb-90
Original-posting-by: news@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News)
Original-subject: OS/2 Screen Blanker
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Archive-files: os2:scrnbl12.zip
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)

note that it doesn't work with this month's UPDATE to 1.2, and will hang
your system requiring a reboot when the blanking occurs. 
From: ballard@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard)
Path: cheddar.cc.ubc.ca!ballard

A version modified to work with the new release can be obtained via 
anonymous FTP from mtsg.ubc.ca (128.189.103.1). "get os2:scrnbl12.zip" 
in binary mode. 

(For the curious:  in release 1.1, in order to be able to use the mouse to 
"unblank" the screen, it was necessary to explicitly open the $mouse dev
after doing the VioPopup used to blank the screen. I don't know if this was 
necessary with the first version 1.2, but I left the code in.  With the new 
release of 1.2, this call to DosOpen hangs somewhere inside the system, 
but it all works OK with the call removed.)


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