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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: cursor
Message-Id: <1995Jun19.100536.54278@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 95 10:05:36 MDT
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In article <romani-1906951034240001@aaladm26.lib.unc.edu>, romani@email.unc.edu (David Romani) writes:
> Folks,
>
> Does any one know of any way to turn the terminal cursor blink off, or
> even just off (as opposed to set terminal cursor block or underline). It
> is a setup feature on VT420 terminals and I have a user who is _very_
> interested in doing it in MS-Kermit 3.14. So far the I have found DOS
> level utils that let me control the cursor in DOS and will supress the
> cursor at the MS-Kermit prompt, but not once I connect.
----------
The IBM PC display adapter hardware controls cursor blinking, and
there are no blinking controls available in the hardware. The DOS utils
to which you refer are trying to play games with character sets and
hooking the timer tick interrupt to include and then make invisible the
cursor and so on; they can't control the real cursor blinking because there
isn't any control. Sorry to report this, but the question comes up every
few months and there isn't a satisfactory solution.
Joe D.