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From: apratt@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: cursor question
Message-ID: <844@atari.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 13:43:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: atari.844
Posted: Wed Sep 16 13:43:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 07:49:18 EDT
References: <20109IGW@PSUVMB>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <20109IGW@PSUVMB>, IGW@PSUVMB.BITNET says:
>
>       How do you make the blinking block cursor into a nice
>        no-blinking underline?

You don't.  You can make the blinking block into a non-blinking block,
or the blinking block into nothing at all, but you can't make it an
underline.  Sorry.  The only solution is to disable the cursor
and write your own cursor handler (not a pretty thing).

You can make the cursor go away entirely by printing the sequence 'ESC-f'
and it will appear again if you print 'ESC-e'.  You can make the cursor
steady (non-blinking) with the XBIOS call Cursconf() -- see your manual
for details.

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