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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu!ritley
  3. From: ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu ()
  4. Subject: DECwindows and the Starship Enterprise
  5. Message-ID: <C0JI5x.Erw@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  6. Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
  7. Reply-To: ritley@uiucmrl.bitnet ()
  8. Organization: Materials Research Lab
  9. Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:41:56 GMT
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  14. In Kevin Barkes' "DCL Dialogue" column in this month's
  15. DECprofessional magazine, he indicates that by changing the
  16. value of sm.pointer_shape to -142, in the file
  17. DECW$SM_GENERAL.DAT, the DECwindows pointer
  18. will be changed to an outline of the "starship Enterprise".
  19.  
  20. This seems to work.
  21.  
  22. Is there somewhere a list of accepted pointer types??????
  23. Possibly other arrow styles????
  24.