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From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: Screen utilties (blanker, 132 col, etc.) for 386BSD?
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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:33:15 GMT
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In article <BxsGKx.JIy@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> genek@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Gene Kim) writes:
>    There sure seems to be a growing wealth of utilities for
>386BSD!  However, I can't seem to find any mention of a simple
>screen-blanker that blanks the screen after a specified keyboard
>idle time is reached.  Does any such beast exist (that doesn't
>run under X)?

To save Holger the trouble :-) -- his co driver has a configurable screen
blanker built in.

David
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