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- I've noticed lately that many terminals and computers have the
- ability to blank their screens after a period of inactivity
- in order to keep the phosphor from being eaten away. I thought
- this was a silly frill until I blanked my monochrome display
- in reverse video and looked closely. And I've had it less
- than a year!
-
- The MONBLNK1.COM program disables the video on a monochrome display
- The COLBLNK1.COM program disables the video on the Color Display
-
- after five minutes of inactivity. Everything disappears except the
- flashing cursor. The display is re-enabled when either a video I/O
- or keyboard interrupt occur. Note that some programs (for example
- Wordstar 3.0, or Monoclok.com), access the video ram directly and
- thus circumvent the video I/O interrupt. If you are using such a
- program and don't touch the keyboard for five minutes, the screen
- will blank even if there is video I/O going on. If this happens,
- just press any key, even a shift key, and the display will return.
-
- Run the program once in DOS and it will stay resident until power
- down or re-boot.
-
- To adjust the time delay, get into debug with the program and patch
- the bytes at 0129H and 014AH with a new value. The delay will be
- about 14 seconds times the number at these locations.
-
- Rich Winkel
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- Rich has uploaded New versions for the color and the mono which do
- work . as of 07/17/83
- CAPITAL PC Softsig. 301-949-8848 IBMPC
- s uploaded New versions for