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FlashCar
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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
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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
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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
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The source code is in the file CodeGen.
The author
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I am contactable until July 1998 at least as
rrt1001@cam.ac.uk