Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 04:27:51 -0600 From: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> To: Josh Gilliam <soil@quick.net> Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused(8) wierdness Message-ID: <19970401042751.56244@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970401005740.17118A-100000@jg.dyn.ml.org>; from Josh Gilliam <soil@quick.net> on Tue, Apr 01, 1997 at 01:09:39AM -0800 References: <19970401025432.35366@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970401005740.17118A-100000@jg.dyn.ml.org>
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On Tue, Apr 01, 1997 at 01:09:39AM -0800, Josh Gilliam wrote: > 3) There is a certain character or character combination in binary files > which appears as a cursor mirror. When the mouse is moved you can see the > cursor move in each occurrence of the character. cat /bin/ls | more Yep, this is an artifact of the method used for the programmed cursor. That character just happens to be one of the four used to display the graphical mouse cursor. Yet another artifact of the cheap VGA subsystem :-). -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email /var/spool/news is 110% full, | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing please delete all the spam you can. | with companies that email ads.
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