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A friend recently asked me to find a program to make his
cursor bigger. The only ones I could find were big and
memory resident, so I wrote a short program that makes the
cursor one to seven scan lines high and doesn't stay in
memory. When you run the program, it prompts you for a
single-digit number; if you type anything other than a
number from 1 through 7, the cursor is made seven lines
high.
Igor Shpak
Brooklyn, New York
Editor's Note: We're always pleased to receive programs by
youthful contributors; the author of this utility, Igor
Shpak, is a 17-year-old Russian immigrant who has been in
the United States for three years. His short utility works
as advertised; it sets the cursor at one to seven scan lines
high. (A scan line is one of the tiny horizontal lines of
pixels that make up the image on your screen.) Only one
caveat here: Some computers with an unusual or older display
adapter or BIOS might produce odd cursor shapes in response
to this program. On most machines, however, including all
the laptops I tried, it works beautifully.
We originally published CURSOR.COM as a DEBUG script, but
you can find it already assembled in the P5UTL directory of
your PowerBase *.* Volume 5 diskette.
Title: Better to Light a Single Cursor
Category: UTL
Issue Date: November, 1992
Editor: Brett Glass
Supplementary Files: P5UTL\CURSOR.COM
Filename: P5UTL009.TIP