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From: link@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link)
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Subject: Re: micro-emacs, disappearing cursor
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Date: 5 Oct 88 04:36:51 GMT
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In article <45900162@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>>    Has anyone ever had the problem of losing the cursor with microemacs

I've had a similar problem with another editor. My system has CGA.
Evidently, many programs 'steal' the cursor, and do not always correctly
restore on exit.

PC Magazine published a solution a while ago (November 24, 1987, page 349).
STICK.COM forces the cursor back to its original attributes after 
executing such a mis-behaved program. Also, the previous issue describes
a program CTYPE.COM which can be used to set the cursor to any desired
shape.

These work using CGA/EGA. I don't know about VGA.

STICK.COM should be run when booting (put it in your AUTOEXEC.BAT list).


Dr. Richard Link
Space Sciences Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley