fitz@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (David Fitzgerald) (12/30/88)
personally i prefer screenblank to lockscreen for saving monitors. the reasons are two fold. (one) the monitors phosphor display is not being wasted when it is not being used. (two) my boss can not tell if i have arrived late in the morning or if i am just away from my desk for a few mins. either way the screen goes dark after a few mins. (you didn't see that boss.) as to whether these programs are good for the screen i don't know. even with screenblank the monitor is still on i.e. warm. grant it the phosphor is not being stressed but something is turning out all those BTUs i still use lockscreen with the "important" -e option if i need to leave the terminal for a while with tools up and running dave ----