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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Blinking text
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:52:10 -0500
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <warren@ve3wwg.tk> wrote in message
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>
> That is probably true, at least until you need the blinking
> attribute. The problem is sufficiently difficult that the
> blink attribute does not exist in PDcurses (yet), where it
> can be used in win32 environments.

You *could* fake the blink attribute on win32 with a task that updates the
screen regularly, but I don't care too much for blinking text so I never
missed it.

-CRM