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- STICK
- Command
-
- Jeff Prosise 1987/No. 20 (Utilities)
-
-
- Purpose: Locks/unlocks a cursor size and shape set with CTYPE.COM
- (Volume 6 Number 19); similarly locks/unlocks a choice of EGA foreground and
- background colors; and permits selective replacement of the EGA BIOS code for
- CGA emulation.
-
- Format: [d:][path]STICK [/L+|-] [/E+|-] [/B+|-] [/C-| fg bg]
-
- Remarks: STICK is a memory-resident (560 bytes) program that eliminates
- several recurring problems connected with the Enhanced Graphics Adaptor (EGA)
- and display. A non-resident utility such as CTYPE.COM can set a cursor size
- and shape in DOS, and it can prevent the cursor loss frequently encountered
- when exiting from utilities such as SideKick while using a 43-line EGA
- display. CTYPE alone can do nothing when applications reset the cursor,
- however, as they normally do. The STICK /L+ option locks in the cursor shape
- for all but applications (such as 1-2-3) that bypass the PC BIOS cursor
- routines altogether. To permit some applications (such as word processors)
- to manipulate the cursor shape themselves, the STICK /L- option disables
- cursor locking.
-
- The STICK /C fg bg option sets EGA foreground and background colors
- respectively, using the hex digits shown below:
-
- 0 Black 8 Gray
- 1 Blue 9 Bright Blue
- 2 Green A Bright Green
- 3 Cyan B Bright Cyan
- 4 Red C Bright Red
- 5 Magenta D Bright Magenta
- 6 Brown E Yellow
- 7 White F Bright White
-
- The foreground color (fg) may range from 0 through F; background (bg)
- values are limited to 0 through 7. A single space must separate each
- parameter. The /C- option disables the color selection locking.
-
- The STICK /E+ option substitutes STICK's own cursor emulation BIOS
- code for the bug-ridden IBM emulation routines. By default, or by using the
- /E- option, the IBM code is restored. Since the EGA provides an emulation
- bit whose setting is stored in the BIOS data area, STICK provides an option
- to set or reset this bit directly. If the /E+ option is active (emulation
- on), STICK /B+ sets the bit value to 1 (disabling the EGA routines); STICK
- /B- re-enables them.
-
- Entered with no parameters, STICK reports the current settings of its
- functions. Any or all optional parameters can be entered on a single command
- line in either upper or lower case. The /L and /C options are implemented on
- all video adapters; the /E switch is limited to EGA systems; /B is functional
- on EGA and VGA-based machines.
-
-
- Format: [d:][path]STICK [/L+|-] [/E+|-] [/B+|-] [/C-| fg bg]