patch-2.1.107 linux/Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt

• Lines: 51
• Date: Wed Jun 24 14:30:07 1998
• Orig file: v2.1.106/linux/Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt
• Orig date: Sat Nov 29 10:33:18 1997

diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.1.106/linux/Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt linux/Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt
@@ -1,34 +1,33 @@
 Software cursor for VGA    by Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
-=======================     & Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
+=======================    and Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
 
    Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally, you
-can set the size of hardware cursor (and also work-around some ugly bugs in
-those miserable Trident cards -- see #define TRIDENT_GLITCH in drivers/char/
+can set the size of hardware cursor (and also work around some ugly bugs in
+those miserable Trident cards--see #define TRIDENT_GLITCH in drivers/char/
 vga.c). In case you enable "Software generated cursor" in the system
-configuration, you can play few new tricks: you can make your cursor look
+configuration, you can play a few new tricks:  you can make your cursor look
 like a non-blinking red block, make it inverse background of the character
 it's over or to highlight that character and still choose whether the
-original hardware cursor should remain visible or not. And maybe other
+original hardware cursor should remain visible or not.  There may be other
 things I have never thought of.
 
    The cursor appearance is controlled by a "<ESC>[?1;2;3c" escape sequence
 where 1, 2 and 3 are parameters described below. If you omit any of them,
 they will default to zeroes.
 
-   Parameter #1 specifies cursor size (0=default, 1=invisible, 2=underline, ...,
+   Parameter 1 specifies cursor size (0=default, 1=invisible, 2=underline, ...,
 8=full block) + 16 if you want the software cursor to be applied + 32 if you
-want to always change the background color + 64 if you dislike background same
-as foreground. (Highlights are ignored for the last two flags.)
+want to always change the background color + 64 if you dislike having the
+background the same as the foreground.  Highlights are ignored for the last two
+flags.
 
    The second parameter selects character attribute bits you want to change
-(by simple XOR'ing them with the value of this parameter). On standard VGA,
-the high 4 bits specify background and the low 4 the foreground. In both
-groups, low 3 bits set color (as in normal color codes used by the console)
-and the most significant one turns on highlight (or sometimes blinking -- it
+(by simply XORing them with the value of this parameter). On standard VGA,
+the high four bits specify background and the low four the foreground. In both
+groups, low three bits set color (as in normal color codes used by the console)
+and the most significant one turns on highlight (or sometimes blinking--it
 depends on the configuration of your VGA).
 
-   And the third parameter consists of character attribute bits you want
-to set. Bit setting takes place before bit toggling, so you can simply
-clear a bit by including it in both the set mask and the toggle mask.
-
-
+   The third parameter consists of character attribute bits you want to set.
+Bit setting takes place before bit toggling, so you can simply clear a bit by 
+including it in both the set mask and the toggle mask.