I've been using and programming computers for decades now. I'm almost ashamed to admit I just figured out how to make the cursor disappear this morning. printing "\033[?25l" --turns the cursor off printing "\033[?25h" --turns it back on Convert to your language of choice as needed. I of course now have to bolt this onto about 3 dozen Perl scripts. Incidentally, this came about because I decided I wanted a command line stopwatch app that didn't suck. The cursor made it ugly, so I figured out how to get rid of it. Necessity is the mother of invention. #UNIX #computers #programming