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Blanker Lite 5.5
The essential screen saver for OS/2.
All rights reserved.
Copyright (C) Peter Wansch, 1995
September 8, 1995
Vienna, Austria
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
=====================
The installation program automatically creates a program object
for Blanker Lite in the Startup folder. Hence Blanker Lite is
loaded at system startup. To change the settings of Blanker Lite
display the window list and click on the corresponding entry to
display the Blanker Lite application window.
Blanker Lite supports full screen DOS sessions using a DOS client program called
DBLANKER.COM. DBLANKER.COM is copied to your MDOS directory during installation
and the line @DBLANKER X is appended to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file (X stands for
the blank time in minutes in DOS sessions). To disable DBLANKER in a DOS
session, type DBLANKER 0 at the command prompt. To re-enable DBLANKER type
DBLANKER X (where X is the blank time) at the DOS prompt. Due to the
limitations of DOS and the way some DOS programs are written, DBLANKER
might not work with some DOS programs. DBLANKER also monitors only your keyboard
in DOS sessions. Since the Operating System/2 runs DOS sessions as
separate tasks which have to share resources like CPU time, blanking in DOS
sessions may occur later than anticipated when system load is high.
To enable full screen WIN-OS/2 support start a WIN-OS/2 full screen session.
Open the Control Panel Desktop settings and select the Blanker screen saver
module.
The External modules list on the Modules page in the Settings notebook
displays the name of all installed modules. Enabled modules have a dot
displayed to the left of the name. When the screen is blanked Blanker Lite
chooses one of the enabled modules. To enable or disable a module
select it on the list and choose Configure.
Setting the wrong graphic adapter in the power management settings
can lead to a system halt. Please make sure after the installation
of Blanker that power management works properly. If your system halts,
select a different graphic adapter on the power management page.
Check out the latest on Blanker Lite on
http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e8925493/home.html
INSTALLATION
============
To install Blanker Lite open a full screen or windowed OS/2 session and
type INSTALL at the prompt. Make sure that the LIBPATH and PATH statement
in your CONFIG.SYS file include the directory where Blanker Lite is installed.
The default password is PASSWORD. Blanker Lite is Shareware. Please read the
registration notice in the online help.
Blanker Lite is packaged using Info-ZIP's compression utility. The
installation program uses UnZip to read zip files from the archive.
Info-ZIP's software (Zip, UnZip and related utilities) is free and can be
obtained as source code or executables from various bulletin board
services and anonymous-ftp sites, including CompuServe's IBMPRO forum and
ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip/*.
KNOWN PROBLEMS
==============
If you use Object Desktop from SDS please adjust the paint priority
to Normal. If you select Low you might experience system lockups.
Full screen DOS support does not work correctly with all DOS programs.
Problems have been encountered with MS-Word for DOS 5.0 and DOOM where
the screen was not blanked.
DEVELOPING EXTERNAL BLANKER MODULES
===================================
The archive BSSDEV.ZIP contains a description of how to develop external
Blanker modules and the source code for BOUNCE.BSS. External Blanker
modules are the 32-Bit counterpart of Deskpic modules. If you have
developed an external module, please get in contact with me if you
want it to be included in upcoming versions of Blanker Lite.
COPYRIGHTS
==========
OS/2, Operating System/2, WIN-OS/2 and Workplace Shell are trademarks of IBM Corp.
DPMS.EXE are copyright of Siegfried Hanisch and Peter Wansch.
ScreenSaver is copyright of Siegfried Hanisch.
Deskpic is copyright of John Ridges.
DBLANKER is copyright of Larry Board and Peter Wansch.
The modules AQUARIUM, CLOCK, EYES, FIRE, MELT, PUZZLE, SPHERES, STRING and WALL are copyright of John Ridges.
The module RAIN is copyright by T. Alex Beamish.
The modules SMARTIES, OS2BOUNC and OS22BOUN are copyright by Delboy.
The modules ACIDRAIN, BLOCKS and KALSCOPE are copyright by Keith Agee.
The modules SPLINES and BUSYBEES are copyright by Eduard Kappel.
The modules NEWPOLY and POLYGONS are copyright by Barry E. King.
The modules PUZZLE2 and SHRINK are copyright by Derek Howell.
The module CRAZY is copyright by K. Baran.
The module WORM is copyright by Robert & Del.
The module SWARM is copyright by Patrick J. Naughton and John W. Cocula.
The modules BLANK, FLAME, HOPALONG, IMAGE, LIFE, PYRO, QIX, ROTOR, SWARM and WORM are copyright of Patrick J. Naughton and Michael Lenzen.
The modules EXTERNAL, STICKS, TV, RAUPE are copyright of Olaf Koch.
The module HOPOK is copyright of Michael Peters and Olaf Koch.
The poem 'raupe' on which the module RAUPE is based is copyright 1985, 1990 by Luchterhand Literaturverlag. All rights reserved.
The module BOUNCE is copyright of John Ridges and Peter Wansch.
The module TREK1 is copyright of D. Howell.
The modules 4COLPROB, BOUNCE, GOLIFE, NUMLOCK and SPACE are copyright of Nicole Greiber.
All other modules are copyright of Peter Wansch.
All modules except the modules (C) by Peter Wansch are distributed in this
package free of charge.