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From: hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Brightness (6.0.7) ???
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Date: 14 Apr 91 18:44:59 GMT
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gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes:

>>
>>   >I've recently acquired System 6.0.7 (sans manuals) and am curious
>>   >as to what the CDEV/INIT "Brightness" does.
>>
>>   On the MAC CLASSIC only, it controls the sreen brightness.  BTW it will
>>   not let you turn the screen so far down that you can't see it.
>>
>>Does it display in the Control Panel on other Macs?


>Of course, where else would they put it?


>2 more notes on the Classic:
um, no, if you put the brightness cdev in the system folder of a machine which
won't use the cdev, it won't show up in the control panel.  Thank you for not
checking into your answers before misleading potentially thousands of people.

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