Re: Blinking Apple

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From: Stuart Burden
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1988 22:19

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jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
>Now for a harder one. How do you stop the insertion-point cursor in a word
>processor (I use WriteNow, but they all do it) from blinking? Ideally, how
>do you stop it but leave yourself the option to reactivate it while the
>program is running... or am I fantasizing?

I don't know if you can stop the blinking in any of the commercial WP's (you'd
probably have to write your own code to do it), but you can slow down the
blink rate.  This is an adjustment in the control panel.

Stu.

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