Subject: Non-blinking cursor patch for Linux 0.99.14
From: [email-masked] (Mmmmmmm..... Forbidden donut....)
Date: 9 Dec 1993 23:24:24 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Greetings:

This is to announce that I've uploaded the latest version of my non-blinking
software cursor patch to sunsite and tsx-11. Currently, you can get it from:

sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/noblink.tar.gz

Eventually however, it should be moved to:

sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/kernel/misc-patches/noblink.tar.gz

It should also be available eventually on tsx-11 as:

tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/patches/noblink.tar.gz

For those of you who don't know or have forgotten (which is probably all of
you :), this patch lets you replace the PC's usual hardware generated blinking
underline cursor (which I personally can't stand) with a software generated
non-blinking block cursor. The software cursor can be set to any one of eight
colors which can be chosen on the fly using VT-200 style esccape codes. You
can also switch back and forth from software to hardware cursors, as well
as change the hardware cursor from a blinking underline to a blinking block.
Each virtual console's cursor state is maintained seperately, so you can have
each VC set differently if you like. (And yes, you can have some VCs set to
use the software cursor and others set to use the hardware one. Any combination
is possible.)

Also included is a small C program to generate the escape codes so you
won't have to memorize them.

Please note that this patch is for Linux 0.99.14 only. It will not apply
cleanly to earlier kernels due to some small changes in the console driver.
Industrious persons should be able to apply it by hand, however.

Appended to this message is the Linux software map entry for the package. If
you have any questions, complaints, suggestions or large sums of cash that you
would like to direct towards me, my mailbox is always open. :)

Share and enjoy!

-Bill Paul
[email-masked]

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Begin2
Title        = Non-blinking cursor patch
Version      = 1.0
Desc1        = Patch for the Linux 0.99.14 console driver to replace the
Desc2        = PC's blinking hardware cursor with a non-blinking software
Desc3        = generated one.
Author       = Bill Paul
AuthorEmail  = [email-masked]
Maintainer   = Bill Paul
MaintEmail   = [email-masked]
Site1        = sunsite.unc.edu
Path1        = /pub/Linux/kernel/misc-patches
File1        = noblink.tar.gz
FileSize1    = 7778
Site2        = tsx-11.mit.edu
Path2        = /pub/linux/patches
File2        = noblink.tar.gz
FileSize2    = 7778
Required1    = Linux 0.99.14 kernel sources
Required2    = gcc 2.4.5 or higher
Required3    = Any VGA, SVGA, EGA, CGA or mono video display
CopyPolicy1  = Can be freely modified and redistirbuted as part of
CopyPolicy2  = the Linux kernel.
Comment1     = If you can't stand the PC's flashing cursor, then this
Comment2     = is for you! :)
RelFiles1    = README, noblink.diff, cursor.c
Entered      = 05DEC93
EnteredBy    = Bill Paul
End

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