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- From: mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney)
- Subject: Re: DECwindows and the Starship Enterprise
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:07:03 GMT
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- In article <C0JI5x.Erw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ritley@uiucmrl.bitnet () writes:
- >In Kevin Barkes' "DCL Dialogue" column in this month's
- >DECprofessional magazine, he indicates that by changing the
- >value of sm.pointer_shape to -142, in the file
- >DECW$SM_GENERAL.DAT, the DECwindows pointer
- >will be changed to an outline of the "starship Enterprise".
- >
- >This seems to work.
- >
- >Is there somewhere a list of accepted pointer types??????
- >Possibly other arrow styles????
-
- Check out the DECwindow's Cookbook, which is available from
- {black|white}.cerritos.edu via anonymous ftp. It has a listing of all
- the cursors.
-
- These are the same under DW Motif. Unfortunately, I can't get them to work
- under Ultrix.
-
- Darrin
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