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From: parora@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Pavneet Arora)
Date: Thu, 28-Apr-88 07:06:23 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Apr28.070623.1916@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Subject: Re: Stop cursor blinking in MS-DOS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
References: <22066@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>

In article <22066@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, 1dharvey@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Doug Harvey) writes:
> Does anyone know how to stop the cursor from blinking in DOS?
> It doesn't annoy me enough to load a TSR program, but if there 
> someone can provide me with locations I can patch using DEBUG, I
> would appreciate it.  I'm using DOS versions 3.1 and 3.3.
> 

As far as I understand, the cursor takes on the attribute of the character in
video memory on top of which it is currently sitting, i.e. if you write your
own CLS routine which fills all the attribute bytes with 20h in whatever colour
you wish without setting the blink bit you should get a non-blinking cursor.

This is for colour systems.  I am not sure what the scoop is for mono.

Hope this helps.

pavneet
parora@utgpu
