Turning off the curser.

Jacob Ellis jellis at vicstoy.UUCP
Fri Dec 14 14:15:58 AEST 1990


In article <21 at talgras.UUCP> david at talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes) writes:
>Hello netland,
>
>Can anyone tell me now to turn off the curser so that it does not
>show up on the screen.
>
>This is on Sys V 386 using curses.  I have a nice menu but the blinking
>curser makes it look messy.

The blinking cursor is really dependent on your terminal's capabilities
(ie. it may not support turning the cursor off). Anyway, if it can be done
the function curs_set() in curs_kernel(3X) will do the trick.

>David Hoopes                              Tallgras Technologies Inc. 
>uunet!talgras!david                       11100 W 82nd St.          
>Voice: (913) 492-6002 x323                Lenexa, Ks  66214        


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Jacob Ellis  --  jellis at vicstoy.UUCP  --  Any opinions expressed above are mine



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