Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!att!cbnews!arnaud From: arnaud@cbnews.ATT.COM (alain.arnaud) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Block Cursor on PC Keywords: Block cursor on pc laptop Message-ID: <9839@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 2 Oct 89 13:51:00 GMT References: <3573@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Reply-To: arnaud@cbnews.ATT.COM (alain.arnaud,an,) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 33 In article <3573@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> psfales@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Peter Fales) writes: >In article <369@timer1.UUCP>, fritz@timer1.UUCP (fritz) writes: >> I have a zenith 286 laptop and have difficulty seeing the underscore >> cursor. I want to make it a block. The only way I think I can change >> this is to modify the cursor_start and cursor_stop registers. > For anyone who would like a block cursor routine, mail me your email address and I'll send you a small assembly language program to perform this function. It requires to be assembled and linked. In case you would like it on floppy, mail me a 5 1/4 or 3 1/2 floppy with a self addressed self stamped return mailer and I'll send the source and the executable. This routine set the cursor to a block on each tick of the timer. Works with all word processors, spreadsheets, communication programs (Kermit also) and even PC-NFS. The block cursor is disabled when an application sets the screen to graphics mode. The block cursor is restored when the application exits. Alan Arnaud (uunet!ecla!arnaud) or ECLA Inc Box 596 Brookline, Ma 02146 This is only a guest account.