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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:27:04 +0200
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:00:03PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> I have experimentally determined that I can turn off
> the automatic screen blanking with the following escape
> sequence.
> 
> const char blk[]={27, '[', '9', ';', '0', ']', 0};
> main()
> {
>     printf(blk);
> }
> 
> I need to know what the appropriate ioctl() is to do this

The variable blankinterval is static in console.c.
No, no ioctl, just the escape sequence. (2.4.21)