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echo: c_plusplus
to: FERNANDO ARIEL GONT
from: ALEX WALKER
date: 1997-12-14 18:05:00
subject: Re: How to make a DOS screen saver?

 -=> Quoting Fernando Ariel Gont to Alex Walker <=-
     Hi Fernando
 
 FAG> Well, I think you should learn some ASM.
 FAG> Then you have to make a TSR program, an check the events you want to
 FAG> So you could hook int 28h or int 8h, have an internal counter (within
 FAG> the code of your resident program), and you could reset it whenever
 FAG> someone presses a key or moves the mouse.
     Thanks for the info, just by chance I recently picked up a copy of 
     MASM 6.1 with the view to learning a bit about assembly language 
     programming.  I guess now I'll have a better reason to learn it.
     C yaz 
... Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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