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Epson 386/25 User Manual

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Adding SNOOZE to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file

For convenience in accessing SNOOZE, you can include a

pathname in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Follow these steps:

1.

At the MS-DOS command prompt in the root directory,

type the following and press

Enter:

COPY AUTOEXEC.BAT+CON AUTOEXEC.BAT

To set the path for the SNOOZE utility, type the following

and press

Enter:

PA

TH C:\pathname\

For instance, if you were using the default directory offered

by the VGA Driver Setup program (described above), you

would type:

PATH C:\UTIL\

3.

Press F6 and then

Enter.

Using the utility

To activate the utility, type

SNOOZE

and press

Enter. You see

information about the SNOOZE command syntax and a

message that the SNOOZE delay is set to 5 minutes.

The default period of inactivity before the screen goes blank is
5 minutes. You can specify your own time period by entering a
number from 1 to 60 (minutes) on the SNOOZE command line.

For example, to set a SNOOZE delay of 15 minutes, type the

following and press

Enter:

SNOOZE 15

To disable SNOOZE, type

SNOOZE 0

and press

Enter.

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Using the VGA Utilities