Re: Tell-tale signs of where a mouse has been.

[Samuel W. Heywood]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2000 20:13:52 -0600, Gil Parrish wrote:

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> However, I have not experienced the problem you have.  On bootup, I am duly
> informed that the system can't find the mouse, and maybe I should try
> connecting to another serial port.  When I thereafter load Arachne and use a
> modem on the sole serial port, it works fine.  I'm not clear if the loading
> of the mouse driver aborts when it can't find the mouse, or if the driver
> loads but doesn't cause problems.  In any case, I do not have to REM out the
> part of AUTOEXEC.BAT pertaining to the mouse driver.

Interesting that your mouse doesn't leave tell-tale signs to mess up the
serial port.  What kind of mouse driver do you use?  I use CTMOUSE.

Regards,

Sam Heywood

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