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From: stan@Dixie.Com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: naive question about turning off cursor
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Date: 27 Mar 91 23:46:52 GMT
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lam@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu (Michael Lam) writes:

=>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.

	On my system (ancient) the low level functions vi & ve turn it 
	of and back on respectivly


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