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From: leichter@CS.YALE.EDU (Jerry Leichter (LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU))
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: VT-240 Terminal attributes question
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Date: 17 Apr 89 16:21:27 GMT
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In article <662@soleil.UUCP>, eam@soleil.UUCP (Ed A. Mills) writes...
>Does anyone know why the blink attribute goes away when a QIOW is pending
>on the terminal?  This is particulary annoying since the cursor disappears
>when waiting for keyboard input.
> 
>Also, does anyone know how to stop this annoying characteristic?
> 

It's kind of tough to explain "why this happens" when it *doesn't* happen - at
least I've never seen it happen on any VT240 or RSX or VMS (I assume RSX or
VMS since I know of no other OS's which using QIOW's) I've ever seen.

If the QIO being done is a "read with prompt" and the prompt string contains
an escape sequence to disable the cursor, I suppose that would do it.  (Does
the VT240 actually HAVE such a sequence?  Hmm, I guess if it doesn't you could
switch to ReGIS mode, which I think does let you turn off the cursor.)

							-- Jerry