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- No Blink
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- noblink1.zip Steady caret(text cursor) optional clock [VB3]
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- No Blink and No Blink with Date/Time are two tiny programs which will make
- your text cursor (caret) rock steady.
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- No Blink with Date/Time will also display a digital clock formatted any way
- you like.
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- These progams are in NOBLINK1.ZIP along with a windows help file.
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- Installation
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- No Blink
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- Copy NOBLINK.EXE, and optionally NOBLINK.HLP to the same directory on your
- hard disk.
- Start Program Manager and open the group you want to launch No Blink from.
- ("StartUp" is recommended). Now select File|New to create a new item and use
- the Browse command to locate NOBLINK.EXE. No Blink is now ready to run. Note
- that when run the only visible clues that it is running are that your caret
- is steady and No Blink appears in your Task Manager's list of running
- programs. No Blink can only be terminated by selecting it in Task Manager
- and choosing End Task.
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- No Blink with Date/Time
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- Copy NOBLINKT.EXE, and optionally NOBLINK.HLP to the same directory on your
- hard disk.
- Start Program Manager and open the group you want to launch No Blink with
- Date/Time from. ("StartUp" is recommended). Now select File|New to create a
- new item and use the Browse command to locate NOBLINKT.EXE. No Blink with
- Date/Time is now ready to run. You may wish to customise the font, font size
- and the format of the date and time displayed: to do so you add command line
- options after the path and name of the program in the Command Line section.
- (See Options.) No Blink with Date/Time can only be terminated by selecting
- it in Task Manager and choosing End Task.
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- Uninstalling
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- Simply delete the No Blink files from their directory and their entries in
- the Program Manager group.
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- Compatibility
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- These programs run under Windows and require the Visual Basic runtime
- library VBRUN300.DLL, obtainable from the same source as the No Blink
- programs.
- Neither program changes WIN.INI or any of your other files.
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- These programs work with Windows 3.x, Windows for Workgroups 3.x, Windows NT
- and Windows '95 beta, and with all applications which follow Microsoft's rules.
- (Sadly this means that the caret in Word versions 2 and 6 will continue
- blinking - Microsoft don't appear to follow their own rules: if you dislike
- blinking cursors why not ask Microsoft to provide a "No Blink" option in
- Control Panel's Desktop.)
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- Licence
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- You are free to use No Blink for as long as you wish free of charge. You may
- copy No Blink freely and give the copies away.
- You may not sell No Blink, nor include it with software which is sold without
- written permission of the author.
- If you are a shareware vendor you may charge a small fee for media, copying
- and postage, but nothing for the software itself.
- The software is not supported, but if you have any problems (or solutions!),
- the author would be glad to hear from you.
- No Blink is copyright ⌐ Mark Summerfield 1995: all rights reserved.
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- Postal Address: 6 Pantygwydr Road, Uplands, Swansea, SA2 OJB, UK.
- Email: msummerf@fdgroup.co.uk
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