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From: april@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (April J. Weisman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Blinking Apple
Keywords: blinking cursor
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Date: 3 Aug 88 20:19:28 GMT
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In article <1555@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
>Now for a harder one. How do you stop the insertion-point cursor in a word
>processor (I use WriteNow, but they all do it) from blinking? Ideally, how
>do you stop it but leave yourself the option to reactivate it while the
>program is running... or am I fantasizing?

As far as I know, that is a Macintosh thing, built into the code of any text
editing program.  Not something you can turn off easily!  :-)

-April



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