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- From: gbr@rubicon.muug.mb.ca (Gerald Brandt)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Re: How does one turn the cursor off?
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- Message-ID: <gbr.03be@rubicon.muug.mb.ca>
- References: <1993Jan23.235028.16334@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 08:22:02 CDT
- Organization: Rubicon BBS UUCP Test Site
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- In article <1993Jan23.235028.16334@leland.Stanford.EDU> tone@leland.Stanford.EDU (Tony Lin) writes:
- >Hi everyone!
- >
- > Do any of you know how to turn the cursor off? I'm writing in C and
- >using the Curses library on VT100 terminal emulators. When I write things
- >to different parts of the screen, the cursor flickers around and is kind of
- >annoying. Is there a control code or something that I can send to enable/
- >disable the cursor? I don't think there is a curses function that does it.
- >I'd appreciate any help I can get... send replies to tone@leland.Stanford.EDU
- >Thanks!
- >
- > Tony Lin
-
- I believe there IS a curses function to turn the cursor off. Unfortunately,
- I can't remember it. I do remember that it didn't work under Interactive
- Unix 3.2, and AT&T SVR4. What I ended up doing is placing a white cursor on
- a white part of the screen.
-
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