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- FlashCar
- ========
-
- By Reuben Thomas
-
- FlashCar causes the caret to blink, with user-configurable on and off periods.
- It is useful if you don't have another utility (e.g. Menon) that does this as
- part of its function.
-
- FlashCar is public domain, and comes with no warranty.
-
-
- Usage
- ~~~~~
-
- Double-click on !FlashCar, or put it in your boot sequence (this method is
- recommended, which is one reason there's no icon). To change the on/off periods
- (both are 30/100ths sec. by default), change the values of FlasherCar$On and
- FlasherCar$Off in the !Run file.
-
-
- Why I wrote it
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- When I switched from Menon to Director, I wanted to retain the flashing caret
- feature of Menon. The !Flasher application that comes with the Risc PC does this
- as well, but is written in BASIC, and does other things I don't want. I took it
- apart to find out how it worked and wrote a small machine-code version, which
- takes less processor time and memory.
-
-
- Source
- ~~~~~~
-
- The source code is in the file CodeGen.
-
-
- The author
- ~~~~~~~~~~
-
- I am contactable until July 1998 at least as
-
- rrt1001@cam.ac.uk