king@oetl.UUCP (Steve King) (12/22/89)
Hi,
I am looking for a small public domain utility that will blank the
screen after a set amount of time, and repaint it when either a
mouse is moved or anykey is hit. Would like it to be invokeable in
autoexec.
Thanks in advance
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In article <502@oetl1.oetl.UUCP>, king@oetl.UUCP (Steve King) writes: > I am looking for a small public domain utility that will blank the > screen after a set amount of time, and repaint it when either a > mouse is moved or anykey is hit. Would like it to be invokeable in > autoexec. Look for BURNDEV somewhere. Have used it reliably on everything from Hercules card to VGA. Highelly recommended.
burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton) (12/23/89)
In article <6686@lindy.Stanford.EDU> RR.PPE@forsythe.stanford.edu writes: >In article <502@oetl1.oetl.UUCP>, >king@oetl.UUCP (Steve King) writes: >> I am looking for a small public domain utility that will blank the >> screen after a set amount of time, and repaint it when either a >> mouse is moved or anykey is hit. Would like it to be invokeable in >> autoexec. >Look for BURNDEV somewhere. Have used it reliably on everything >from Hercules card to VGA. Highelly recommended. I just tried to use Burndev v.31, but found it works ONLY with text-mode applications. With my Multi-sync (still connected to my EGA until I get a VGA card) the screen turns to multi-colored garbage with Ventura Publisher. Also, burndev doesn't respond to mouse actions. With Excel and terun-time version of Windows, it's about the same.
baldwin@usna.MIL (LT Justin D. Baldwin <baldwin@usna>) (12/23/89)
In article <1338@mitisft.Convergent.COM>, Philip Burton writes: >I just tried to use Burndev v.31, but found it works ONLY with text-mode >applications. With my Multi-sync (still connected to my EGA until I get a >VGA card) the screen turns to multi-colored garbage with Ventura Publisher. I assume you mean version 2.31. Try installing BURNDEV.SYS in your config.sys file with the option H+ (hard- ware mode on). Maybe your system is just weird, but no one in this depart- ment has ever had such a problem. Though I don't use Ventura, I do use TP, Quattro, PaintShow, AutoCad, WordPerfect, Cyrus, NCSA Telnet (in TEK4014 mode) and a wide variety of other text- and graphics-based applications. I have never had the problem you describe, or indeed any problem with getting the screen to blank in hardware mode--though I've had a few weird results installing it in the default software mode. Also, the hardware mode is less of a memory pig. >Also, burndev doesn't respond to mouse actions. Nothing to be done about that. I find that I can live with hitting the "Alt" key once in a while to reset the burnout timer. In Quattro, I set the timer to 0 in a batch file on invocation (disabling the blanking), and reset it to five minutes on exit. The same could be done for all heavily mouse-based applications. -- From the catapult of: |+| "If anyone disagrees with anything I _, J. D. Baldwin, Comp Sci Dept |+| say, I am quite prepared not only to __||____:::)=}- U.S. Naval Academy|+| retract it, but also to deny under \ / baldwin@cad.usna.navy.mil |+| oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton) (12/27/89)
In article <326@usna.MIL> baldwin@cad.usna.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes: >In article <1338@mitisft.Convergent.COM>, Philip Burton writes: >>I just tried to use Burndev v.31, but found it works ONLY with text-mode >>applications. With my Multi-sync (still connected to my EGA until I get a >>VGA card) the screen turns to multi-colored garbage with Ventura Publisher. > >I assume you mean version 2.31. Yes, I did mean v 2.31. I just can't type too well. > >Try installing BURNDEV.SYS in your config.sys file with the option H+ (hard- >ware mode on). Yup. Already did. > Maybe your system is just weird, but no one in this depart- I doubt it. I have a gen-u-wine IBM PC AT 6 MHz (ripe for an upgrade), and a gen-u-wine IBM EGA card with 256 KB RAM. My new monitor is a NEC 3D. >ment has ever had such a problem. Though I don't use Ventura, I do use >TP, Quattro, PaintShow, AutoCad, WordPerfect, Cyrus, NCSA Telnet (in TEK4014 >mode) and a wide variety of other text- and graphics-based applications. I >have never had the problem you describe, or indeed any problem with getting >the screen to blank in hardware mode--though I've had a few weird results > >>Also, burndev doesn't respond to mouse actions. > >Nothing to be done about that. I find that I can live with hitting the >"Alt" key once in a while to reset the burnout timer. In Quattro, I > _, J. D. Baldwin, Comp Sci Dept |+| say, I am quite prepared not only to Unfortunately, the ALT key solution doesn't work at all for Excel (Windows), and with Ventura, it causes the multi-colored garbage to re-appear on the screen. The only soluion is a reboot.