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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v05i069: blockcur, force block cursor
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Message-ID: <1049@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 17 Nov 89 21:53:24 GMT
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In article <2351@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> drv@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (dennis.r.vogel) writes:
>This seems to work but I want a program that will make the blinking
>cursor stop blinking!  When its an underline style, it isn't too
>bad.  But when I use blockcur to make it a whole block, it is too
>distracting.  How about someone posting a stop-blink program?

Actually, before blockcur (block the cursor :-) came out, I was
considering writing a similar utility myself (and still might for my
own edification).  It is not very difficult.  What one has to do is
to access the interrupt controlling the cursor size at regular
intervals, and make the program resident.  The cursor size control
is well documented in several sources such as the Norton & Wilton
book and inter589.arc interrupt summary available from any well
stocked ftp site or BBS.  Stopping the blinking is quite another
matter.  In fact the programs with the (seemingly) unblinking
cursor, do not use a cursor at all! They subsitute the cursor with
ascii 219 or ascii 220.  And anyway, were the resident cursor
unblinking, how would you see che character at the cursors'
location? There are many situations where the cursor is to move back
and forth. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi                                (Site 128.214.12.3)
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