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- From: szabo_p@maths.su.oz.au (Paul Szabo)
- Subject: Re: Idle nodes? (was Re: automatic screen turn-off)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.214827.22827@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Sender: szabo_p@maths.su.oz.au (Paul Szabo)
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- Reply-To: szabo_p@maths.su.oz.au (Paul Szabo)
- Organization: Mathematics, University of Sydney
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:48:27 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <BtwMGy.EG0@apollo.hp.com> ganek@apollo.hp.com (Dan Ganek)
- writes:
- > >I cannot find any documentation on the gpr_$video_ctl call. (Not that I
- > >would need it at the moment.)
- >
- > From /sys/ins/gpr.ins.pas:
- >
- > { GPR_$VIDEO_CTL -- turn video on/off }
- > PROCEDURE gpr_$video_ctl(
- > IN on_off: boolean;
- > OUT status: status_$t { returned status }
- > ); EXTERN;
- >
- > TRUE unblanks the screen, FALSE blanks and resets the timeout
- >
- > This replaced smd_$video_ctl.
-
- Thanks. Only problem is that my /sys/ins/gpr.ins.pas is older than yours (I
- am only up to SR10.4 :-). Maybe you have access to the set of un-released,
- complete include files? We simple mortals do not have smd include files
- either.
-
- Anyway, my real question was:
-
- > Is there a way to find out how long an Apollo node (i.e. the interactive
- > user logged on the display) has been idle? It might be sufficient to find
- > out whether the screen has been blanked out or not (with due regard to the
- > setting of scrto). Does anyone know the trick?
-
- Paul Szabo - System Manager // School of Mathematics and Statistics
- szabo_p@maths.su.oz.au // University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
-