# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 952864488 0
# Node ID e1e48e0663f60b884b855e6041417e63d5d0b197
# Parent  3e652235df91934d45591678f749cd8cb9999d37
Mention cursor-type support on MS-DOS terminals.

diff -r 3e652235df91 -r e1e48e0663f6 etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Sun Mar 12 12:33:59 2000 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sun Mar 12 12:34:48 2000 +0000
@@ -2662,6 +2662,13 @@
 
 Likewise, an attempt to split a fixed-height window vertically,
 or a fixed-width window horizontally results in a error.
+
+** The cursor-type frame parameter is now supported on MS-DOS
+terminals.  When Emacs starts, it by default changes the cursor shape
+to a solid box, as it does on Unix.  The `cursor-type' frame parameter
+overrides this as it does on Unix, except that the bar cursor is
+horizontal rather than vertical (since the MS-DOS display doesn't
+support a vertical-bar cursor).
 ^L
 * Emacs 20.5 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes.