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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Cursor, etc.
Message-ID: <1972@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 88 20:11:51 GMT
References: <398@lscvax.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> Since they tell me that the cursor is defined in hardware, this is
> probably futile but I am trying anyway. I vaguely remember someone
> mentioning an article in Byte magazine a while back about changing the
> cursor to a little state of Texas. Is this in fact possible? If so, how
> is it done? I would really like a chance to fool around with the cursor
> a little bit. The DOS interrupts to change it don't offer NEARLY enough
> flexibility. (I would especially like to SHUT OFF THE FOOLISH
> BLINKING!!!) Any help in this area would be appreciated.

I recall that was a PROMPT command, so that the DOS prompt was the state
flag of Texas.  (It worked, too, with a little debugging.  "O" for "0"
mistakes in printing.  We set up a Texan at Kontron with this as his
cursor -- he got a good laugh from it).

Clayton E. Cramer