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From: lam@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu (Michael Lam)
Subject: naive  question about turning off cursor
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.204723.8003@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 20:47:23 GMT
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Does anyone know how to turn off the cursor while using
the curses package (after compiling with -lcurses -ltermcap 
and calling initscr)?

From the curses manual, there are 3 functions that are supposed
to do this:

setsyx
curs_set
leaveok

When I tried it, first two were not found by ld (I included both
stdio.h and curses.h), and leaveok didn't work (I called by
leaveok(stdscr,TRUE) and leaveok(stdscr,FALSE))

Any comment will be very much appreciated.

-Michael Lam
 U of Illinois at Chicago