Re: MacOSX - crash screensaver locked with password and get the desktop back

[Scott Menor <Scott.Menor () asu edu>]

On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 22:46 America/Phoenix, Scott Menor wrote:

> On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 10:26 America/Phoenix, Brent J. Nordquist 
> wrote:
>
> > On 4 Jul 2003, Delfim Machado <bipbip () xpto org> wrote:
> >
> > > i don't know the exact amount of characters, only that if you leave a
> > > key pressed for 5 minutes or more and then hit the enter key, you 
> > > crash
> > > the screensaver and gain access to the desktop.
> >
> > Confirmed; Mac OS X 10.2.6 on iBook (600MHz PowerPC G3)
>
> also confirmed on Mac OS X 10.2.6 on Powerbook (17" / 1GHz G4)
>
> appears to also effect other Cocoa applications

should have included in my previous email but (as mentioned here - 
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1330224&mode=thread ), 
using emacs ctrl-a, ctrl-k and ctrl-y ctrl-y in succession shows that 
it requires between 1280 and 1380 characters to crash the screensaver 
(I didn't have time to find an exact number)

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