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From: rwatson@clark.net (Robert Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBD Screen Saver (Text Based)
Date: 10 Feb 1995 16:58:04 GMT
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Paul Stith (pauls@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:
: I know that at one point I has a screen saver running on my 2.0
: system...  I even remember the options - but can't recall what
: the executable was.  

Try vidcontrol(1) --

vidcontrol -t [timeoutinseconds] -s [NameofSaver|help for list] 

vidcontrol -s help

will list the names of the available savers.  If you want under X, that's 
a different matter though ;).