screen blanker?

Pete Holsberg pjh at mccc.uucp
Fri Oct 5 05:11:30 AEST 1990


In article <15910 at bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
=In article <1990Oct1.220403.4429 at mccc.uucp> pjh at mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=>Is there a screen blanker for SV/386 R3.2?
=
=Yes, there is.  I am enclosing the source.
=
=--- CUT HERE --- CUT HERE --- CUT HERE --- CUT HERE --- CUT HERE --- 
=
=#! /bin/sh
=# This is a shell archive, meaning:
=# 1. Remove everything above the #! /bin/sh line.
=# 2. Save the resulting text in a file.
=# 3. Execute the file with /bin/sh (not csh) to create:
=#	screenblank
=# This archive created: Wed Oct  3 10:17:15 1990
=export PATH; PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
=if test -f 'screenblank'
=then
=	echo shar: "will not over-write existing file 'screenblank'"
=else
=sed 's/^X//' << \SHAR_EOF > 'screenblank'
=X: use /bin/sh
=X#	Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 AT&T
=X#	  All Rights Reserved
=X
=X#	THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
=X#	The copyright notice above does not evidence any
=X#	actual or intended publication of such source code.
=X
=X#ident	"@(#)screenblank:screenblank.sh	1.19.1.7"
=X
=X#	Screen blanking script 
=X
=Xecho "\014\c"
=SHAR_EOF
=chmod +x 'screenblank'
=fi
=exit 0
=#	End of shell archive

That's very funny, Neff!  But, seriously, I'm looking for something that
will blank the screen after N minutes of no activity at the keyboard. 
Do you know of something like that?

Thanks,
Pete
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