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- BLINKY: A Cursor Visibility Enhancement Utility
- Version 1.0
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- Copyright 1992, Farpoint Software
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- This program may be freely copied and distributed, as long as the
- following conditions are met: (1) No fee is charged other than a normal
- time usage fee required by some Bulletin Board Services, or a small
- disk duplication fee not to exceed $8, (2) The program is distributed
- in its original, unmodified form, and (3) This document file is
- included with the executable file without modification. This program
- may not be bundled with, or transferred as part of, any package which
- is sold or for which any licensing fee is charged.
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- This program is released as shareware. This means that you may use the
- program for a trial period of up to three weeks, but if you continue to
- use it regularly thereafter, a registration fee of $12 is requested.
- The registration fee may be sent to:
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- Farpoint Software
- 2501 Afton Court
- League City, TX 77573-3438
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- Upon registering, you will be mailed a disk containing the most recent
- version of the program, plus a couple of additional free Windows
- programs.
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- Blinky is a Microsoft Windows program whose purpose is to improve the
- visibility of the mouse cursor. This is accomplished in two ways:
- (1) The cursor can be made to blink on and off, and (2) The cursor can
- be made much larger, displaying either a large black arrow with a white
- border or a large white arrow with a black border (or numerous others).
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- Blinky is intended primarily for laptop users, but a lot of application
- programs could benefit from a blinking mouse cursor, even on standard
- CRT monitors. It has for years been normal for TEXT screen cursors to
- blink.
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- There are just two files in the archive:
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- BLINKY.EXE - The executable program.
- BLINKY.DOC - This file.
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- To install the program, simply copy the EXE file into any desired
- directory, then start the program as you would any other Windows
- program (i.e. place an entry into the Program Manager and double-click
- it, or select File/Run from the Program Manager menu and type the full
- pathname of BLINKY.EXE as the comamnd line).
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- Blinky starts up as an icon. It can be configured from the "Setup"
- dialog box, accessible from the icon's system menu. While the dialog
- box is visible, the following parameters can be set:
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- Blink rate: Can be set to 250, 500, or 1000 milliseconds. This is
- the time taken by the complete on/off cycle.
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- Duty cycle: Can be set to 75% or 50%. This determines the on-time-
- to-off-time ratio. For example, if the blink rate is set to
- 1000 milliseconds and the duty cycle is set to 75%, then the
- cursor will be "on" for 750 milliseconds and "off" for 250
- milliseconds of each cycle.
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- Blink while moving: If checked, then the cursor will blink at all
- times. If this option is unchecked, then the cursor will remain
- "on" as long as it is in motion, and will start to blink only
- while stationary.
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- Cursor shape: Sets the appearance of the cursor. Try each one to
- see its effect.
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- Blinky automatically saves its configuration in a file named
- BLINKY.INI, which will be created in the default directory the first
- time Blinky is run. Blinky will NOT put "junk" in your WIN.INI file,
- nor will it play with your CONFIG and AUTOEXEC files.
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