Canon Cat Reference Manual page 136

blink rate
The rate at
which
the cursor
blinks. When
the
text
has
just
been recorded on the
disk, or
just played
back
from
the
disk, the
blink rate is fast
-
three
times per
second.
The
blink rate slows
noticeably when
changes have been
made
but the
text
has
not been recorded.
A
fast-blinking cursor
is
called
a
happy
cursor.
blinker
A
blinking vertical line
on the ruler that shows the
horizon
tal location of the cursor.
blinking
Alternately appearing and disappearing.
block erase
Erasing two or more
contiguous characters
all
at
once
by
highlighting them and pressing
[ERASE].
break,
in
communications
In
ordertocommunicate with
somecomputers you
mustbe
abletoputthe modem into
a
special
conditioncalledbreak.
To
send
a
break press [USE FRONT]-[SEND CONTROL]-
ISPACE BAR].
break character
A return,
page,
or document character. An
automatic page
break
is
not
a
break character.
bold
Darker, thicker
type.
BOLD
An
autohighlighting command that
boldfaces
the
text
covered in your last leap or typed since you
last moved the
cursor or
used
a
command,
buffer
An internal memory
areaholding acopy of
the
highlighted
text to be printed.
bulleted paragraph
A paragraph with
a
special character
at
the
beginning
ofthe
first line, usually positioned
to the
left of
the
left margin.
bulletin
board
See
computer
bulletin
board.
byte
The
amount
of computer memory required to
store
one
character.