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- CTYPE
- Command
-
- Jeff Prosise 1987/No. 19 (Utilities)
-
-
- Purpose: Recovers the cursor when it disappears upon leaving an
- application, and permits setting cursor shape.
-
- Format: [d:][\path]CTYPE [/xy]
-
- Remarks: The optional /xy command line parameter, which can also be
- used in an AUTOEXEC.BAT file, consists of two letters ranging from A to the
- letter that represents the maximum number of scan lines in the current video
- mode character box. This is N for an MGA or an EGA in 25-line mode (14 scan
- lines), and H for an EGA in 43-line mode or a CGA in text mode (8 scan lines).
-
- Entered without the /xy parameter, CTYPE brings up a selection frame
- in which, as the cursor is moved by the arrow keys, the cursor size/shape
- changes. Pressing the spacebar at this point alternately shows the cursor
- against a sample line of text and returns to the selector frame. Pressing
- Enter selects the cursor shape shown and returns to the command line prompt.
-
- When the cursor is temporarily lost, as when exiting from SideKick (or
- other TSR utility) while in a 43-line EGA mode, entering CTYPE will restore
- the cursor.
-
- Note: Many applications programs reset the cursor internally for their own
- purposes. These settings will supercede those of CTYPE. To restore the
- CTYPE cursor on exit, run such programs from a batch file whose last line
- resets the desired CTYPE parameters.
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