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- * adim.c play with autodim parameters
- *
- * NeXT Monochrome Monitors last about 2 years if left on all the time, NOT
- * real good. This may be do to burn in? If it is one would think that a
- * screen saver would help. Backspace is one of the nicest i have seen!
- * Backspace and all other screen savers that i have seen have one major
- * flaw, they can not dim the login screen! For some reason known only to
- * NeXT you can not set the time to dim or the brightness value for a dimmed
- * screen from the Preferences app.
- *
- * So i wrote adim. All adim does is set the time to delay before dimming the
- * screen and the brightness of the dimmed screen. This works great while
- * one is logged in. When you log out something resets both brightness and
- * time. Solution, run adim from cron every few minutes or use the -s
- * option and background adim. If you use the -s option a adim's process id
- * and a new line will be written to a file. /tmp/adim.pid is the default,
- * use the -f option to change.
- *
- * I think the NeXT is a good machine, something is very wrong with the design
- * of the monitor!!! A two year life expectancy sucks, my old AT&T 6300
- * monitor lasted 6.5 years.
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