From:	Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au>
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Subject:	Re: Trying to hide cursor on a DOS box on WinNT
Date:	Fri, 08 Nov 2002 21:01:44 +1100
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>I'm trying to do that with conio funtions, but fail. I've searched the
>FAQ with no luck. I'm using
>
>       _setcursortype (_NOCURSOR);
>
>But it only works in fullscreen mode, not inside a DOS window. In that
>case
>the behaviour is somehow erratic, and usually the cursor shows up all
>the time.
I have used this for a long long time and it has worked for me on
everything from DOS, WIn 9x, NT 4.0 SP2 through SP6, 2K and XP.

Boot up using a DOS disk and try the app. If it works then the problem
is with NT otherwise it is with the video card.

>Is this a known issue? 
Not as far as I can remember. 
>Is there a workaround?

>I'm using gcc 3.2 on WinnT 4.0 SP3.
Have you tried it on another PC running NT 4.0? A long shot could be
that it is an NT video driver or vidoe bios problem. Another thing to
try is SP6 or SP6A for NT 4.0 as SP3 is very old.

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