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- DIMMER.COM
- Command
-
- Douglas Boling and Jeff Prosise October 17, 1989 (Utilities)
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- Purpose: To provide software control of VGA monitor brightness
- interactively from the keyboard, through parameters entered on the command line,
- or at a specified interval after the last keystroke.
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- Format: DIMMER [[+|-]adj] [/D time [+|-]adj] [/V[+|-]] [/U]
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- Remarks: Entered without any of its optional parameters, DIMMER uses the
- Alt-Up-Arrow and Alt-Down-Arrow keys to increase or decrease screen brightness.
- The original intensity level can be restored at any time by pressing Alt-Home.
- DIMMER is a memory-resident program (see Note); it can be uninstalled by being
- run with the /U switch.
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- The adj parameter accepts integer values from +63 to -63. Although
- relative to the intensity level in effect when the program loads, a value of -63
- will completely blank the screen and +63 will wash out almost all colors. The
- time parameter sets the number of minutes (up to 65,534) to allow after the last
- keystroke. Used in conjunction with the optional /D switch and an adj value
- (usually -63), the time parameter is normally used when it is desired to blank
- the screen after a specified period of keyboard inactivity. Any subsequent
- keypress will restore the screen to its original level, but as this keystroke
- will be fed to the application, it is safest to hit an unaccompanied Ctrl, Alt,
- or Shift key. Once active, the screen-saver option can be cancelled by entering
- DIMMER /D 0.
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- With applications that do not write directly to the video BIOS, a
- blanked screen can be automatically restored when the program attempts to
- update the display. This is accomplished by using the optional /V (or V+)
- switch. By default, DIMMER restores the intensity level only when a keystroke
- is entered, which is equivalent to running the program with a /V- command-line
- switch.
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