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Jeff Williams wrote:
> 
> -: I wonder how they got
> -: that white-arrow to work in text-mode.
> 
> For years I've wanted to do something similar, which is to have a
> custom graphics cursor (something I provide an itty-bitty bitmap for,
> *not* one of the available PC chars) in an otherwise text mode screen.
> Is this thread relevant to this task?

Have a look at v2tk/jpt40k_s.zip on Simtel. It contains source to do
exactly that (mousegcc.cpp).

Jason.