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From: sword@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Ronin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Constant block cursor program
Message-ID: <1236@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 01:40:14 EST
Article-I.D.: vu-vlsi.1236
Posted: Fri Nov 27 01:40:14 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 00:27:26 EST
Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept.
Lines: 36
Keywords: cursor, on, inverse, lots of bugs, what a pain


Well, I've seen this discussion before...

I'd say about 5 months ago, this was an active question (setting the
cursor on/off/solid and I said I'd write a quicky TSR to try and
fix it.  Well, it took awhile, but, having time during Thanksgiving,
I hammered one out.  This is a basic description/problem list:

1.  It does reproduce a solid, non-blinking cursor, where the cursor
  should be.

2.  However, it gets really nasty when the screen scrolls up during
cursor repositioning (i.e. during a "DIR")

3.  It crashes Turbo Pascal, once you enter the edit mode.

4.  It makes IBM Basica do very strange things.

All-in-all these are not good signs.  I used the tried-and-true,
anti-IBM method of replacing the vector table addresses, so I know
that works.  I will post it for fixing/examination.  But my
question is, do I post it here, somewhere else, or mail it
to somebody????  (all this moderation/no moderation stuff left
me in the dust - I should have paid attention).  Somebody let
me know, and I'll have it out by Tuesday, if I find out how.
Then, maybe we can all have solid cursors, at least sometimes.

..lar

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Larry Esmonde, Program Director of SWORD (Students Working On R & D)
Computer Science Dept.
Villanova University
Villanova, Pa. 19085

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