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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Making cursor invisible
Date: 2 May 2000 18:04:33 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <390f169e.837413411@news.bellglobal.com>,
Gord Shier <shier@shorcan.com> wrote:
: On Tue, 02 May 2000 08:21:05 +0100, Paul Williams <flo@rdel.co.uk> wrote:
: >Gord Shier wrote:
: >> I am using VT220 emulation, and I would like to make the
: >> cursor invisible using the terminfo 'civis' string, which is
: >> '\E[?25h', according to my vt220 listing. Sadly, this doesn't work.
: >> Is there an escape sequence that I can send to hide the cursor?
: >
: >You've been making the cursor visible. '\E[?25l' (that's a lowercase ell
: >on the end) will make the cursor invisible.
:
: Unfortunately, that was merely a typing mistake in my message, not in
: what I was doing. I have been using the 'l'. I've tried it from
: little scripts, as well as doing 'tput civis' and 'tput cnorm' which
: extract the appropriate sequences from my terminfo db. Nothing works
: so far.
:
Apparently MS-DOS Kermit does not support this escape sequence.
If you are using MS-DOS Kermit on Windows 95/98/NT/2000, you can switch
to Kermit 95, which does support it:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
- Frank