static CONSOLE_CURSOR_INFO initial_cci;
static bool have_initial_cci = false;

    // Use the initial Windows setting for cursor size if it exists.
    // TODO: Respect changing cursor size manually while Crawl is running.
    have_initial_cci = GetConsoleCursorInfo( outbuf, &initial_cci );

    cci.dwSize = 5;

    cci.dwSize = have_initial_cci && initial_cci.dwSize ? initial_cci.dwSize
                                                        : 5;