From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: cursor
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:09:16 +0200, "Eli Zaretskii"
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:36:17 -0600
>> From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
>> 
>> In fact, it might be sufficient if you could just tell the
>> BIOS to use one of the upper 128 PC chars as a cursor.
>
>Except that AFAIK, there's no way of telling the BIOS to use a
>certain character as the text-mode cursor.  If you know how to
>do that, please tell.

How about telling BIOS to display "no cursor" and displaying the
cursor with your own custom input code?  It may sound tedious to some,
but once it gets put into a Free library, it's tedious only once.

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