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MARQUEE.DOC January 1993 David Rygmyr
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Purpose: Basic screen saver for DOS and QBasic Runtime.
Format: QBASIC /RUN MARQUEE.BAS
(This assumes you have both MARQUEE.BAS and
QBASIC.EXE in your DOS path.)
Comment: Create a batch file called MARQUEE.BAT that
types the above "Usage" text for you.
Remarks: Screen savers are neither new nor exciting but
their virtues are legendary. While you're away
from your PC, a screen saver prevents the electron
gun in your monitor's cathode ray tube (CRT) from
overstimulating the phosphors that coat the inside
of your screen which, over time, would reduce
their luminosity and could cause characters to be
burned into the screen. The classic screen saver
is memory resident--and like any TSR, it hogs
system resources and conflicts with most drivers
and programs you want to run.
MARQUEE.BAS is an alternative. It is a QBasic
program you can use to blank your screen or display
with a scrolling message of up to 79 characters
(that is, a screen's width less 1 character).
This screen saver is compatible with Windows 3.1.
Add a program icon to one of your groups called
MARQUEE. For the command line syntax, use the
QBASIC /RUN syntax listed above. Then, when you
want a quick screen saver in Windows, click on the
icon and type in a quick message and your screen
will be blanked with the quick message you typed
until you restore the screen upon your return.