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From: mat@emcard.UUCP (W Mat Waites)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C128 Programming question
Message-ID: <8244@emcard.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 90 14:55:53 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.043708.23063@DMI.USherb.CA>
Reply-To: mat@emcard.UUCP (W Mat Waites)
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In article <1990Nov13.043708.23063@DMI.USherb.CA> sd05@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Sylvain Tremblay / Eric Trepanier) writes:
>It's easy
>to turn the cursor on in 80 columns using the ESCAPE F sequence.  But I'm
>clueless as to how to turn on the 40 column cursor...
>
>Anybody has a suggestion?
>
>|  Eric Trepanier               CIS: 71640,666               \\\///  #  |  |

There is no 40 column cursor. The one you see in basic is software generated
by flipping the high bit on the character at the cursor position to change it
into the inverse video version of that character.

Cheesy BASIC terminal programs output "backspace, select inverse, space,
select non-inverse, backspace" in loop to imitate the blinking cursor.

I wrote a terminal program in C in which I generated a cursor using a sprite.

In other words, you've gotta generate it yourself somehow.

Mat

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