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From: schanck@schooner.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Schanck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turn on/off cursor?
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Date: 1 Dec 88 17:48:07 GMT
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In article <44479@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.Yale.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>How do you turn off the cursor and turn it on again? I need a method
>that works well for all video types and I would like to be able to
>restore the cursor to its original shape when the program exits.

At a job I worked this summer, we had this same problem. Bios routine for 
setting cursor height won't work across CGA/EGA etc. We ended up simply
calling the cursor position BIOS routine and putting the cursor off the
screen. Of course, this only works if you screen output is in bursts,
since you must do it for every screen write. BUt if you use direct memory
writes ... :-)!!!




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