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- From: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Y.X. Liu )
- Subject: Re: BIGCURS cursor program update in TSUTLD20.ZIP at Garbo
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.160321.21149@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Sep13.162626.14660@uwasa.fi> <1992Sep14.151921.3320@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:03:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep14.151921.3320@ncsu.edu> mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL RONN MARCELAIS) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep13.162626.14660@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
- >|> From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- >|> Subject: TSUTLD20.ZIP utility collection, Garbo
- >|> To: garbo-infolist@uwasa.fi (Garbo Infolist)
- >|> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 18:43:27 EET DST
- >|>
- >|> Sun 13-Sep-92: I have released an update of my fourth package of
- >|> utilities making it garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutld20.zip.
- >|> I have a laptop-oriented TSR (terminate and stay resident)
- >|> program BIGCURS.EXE to make the cursor a block so that is is better
- >|> visible. It now can sense whether it already has been loaded so that
- >|> the user cannot accidentally load it twice.
- >
- >Why does this need to be a TSR? I know there is a system call in DOS to allow
- >you to change the cursor size and doesn't require a TSR program. Norton
- >Control Center does this without being a TSR and it works. What else does
- >this program do, besides give you a big cursor and eat up memory?
-
- Because if it's a TSR it will constantly update the cursor to make it a
- block. Programs like NCC and others works but if you give a command like
- MODE CO80 which 'resets' the display, the cursor will revert to normal.
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