davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (11/18/89)
Someone was asking about a way to do screen blank on Xenix. I have a suggestion, like BOB do it. BOB is a TLA for "Black on Black". Here's how it works: 1. set the current foreground and background to black 2. move the cursor to the top of the screen 3. clear to end of screen I have one virtual terminal with no getty, and I BOB it at boot. Then I can manually or automatically change screens to that screen when the lowest idle time from "who -u" gets over your personal choice. You can also set the screen colors back to your favorite as long as nothing writes to the screen. Here's BOB in ANSI: echo "\033[30;40m\033[H\033[J\c" > /dev/tty11 and to set screen 11: echo "\033[10z\c" Hope this helps some one. If you have an old console device driver you may have to replace the color sequence "\033[30;40m" with "\033[30m\033[40m" to make it work. Someone could drop me mail and tell me if this still works on SCO UNIX as well. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon