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From: drv@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (dennis.r.vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v05i069: blockcur, force block cursor
Keywords: payware
Message-ID: <2375@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 89 16:30:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewsj.2375
References: <1074@cirrusl.UUCP> <2351@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> <1049@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1049@chyde.uwasa.fi>, ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes:
>                          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. 
> 
> Prof. Timo Salmi

Agreed, that the characters under the cursor must remain visible.
I think reverse video would be OK for that purpose.

Dennis R. Vogel
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lincroft, NJ