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Slow down or stop cursor blinking

Is there any way to slow down the rate the cursor blinks at? Or, even better, a way to make it stop blinking altogether? On the system I'm using (an old Dell Optiplex 7010), it's flashing about three times a second, and I'm finding it very distracting. Thank you!
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Robert, Are you talking about running WordStar on top of SvarDOS? :-D You could try NoBlink https://mendelson.org/noblink.html or Cursor https://archive.org/details/msdos_festival_CURSOR11 Cheers, A Robert too
Related situation here: after installing the 20250427 build, I get a "fat", almost square-shaped blinking cursor (looks to be half the size of a character cell). How can I replace it with a simple _ underscore? EDIT: Ugh. Got it. The 'Insert' key toggles between _ underscore and ▄ bigger block cursor. Know yer keyboard, its indicator lights and symbols, I guess. :)

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