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From: hwfe@ur-tut (Harlan Feinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Stop cursor blinking in MS-DOS
Message-ID: <1944@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 17:38:52 GMT
References: <22066@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <1988Apr28.070623.1916@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: hwfe@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Harlan Feinstein)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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   In article <22066@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, 1dharvey@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA
   (Doug Harvey) writes:
   Does anyone know how to stop the cursor from blinking in DOS?
   It doesn't annoy me enough to load a TSR program, but if there 
   someone can provide me with locations I can patch using DEBUG, I
   would appreciate it.  I'm using DOS versions 3.1 and 3.3.

      In article <1988Apr28.070623.1916@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> 
      parora@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Pavneet Arora) writes:
      As far as I understand, the cursor takes on the attribute of the 
      character in video memory on top of which it is currently sitting, i.e.
      if you write your own CLS routine which fills all the attribute bytes
      with 20h in whatever colour you wish without setting the blank bit you
      should get a non-blinking cursor.

      This is for colour systems.  I am not sure what the scoop is for mono.

This is not true; the blinking of the cursor does not come from the background
color or blinking attributes.  It is true that the cursor takes its color from
the background, but as to the blinking, no.  As far as _I_ know, there's no
way other than turning it off and writing software to do your own cursor.

>pavneet
>parora@utgpu

Harlan
hwfe@tut.cc.rochester.edu