On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Gil Parrish wrote:
> 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.
>
If you never use the mouse, then you don't need to load the mouse driver.
REMing out the line in AUTOEXEC.BAT (or better yet just deleting the line
altogether) will prevent the driver from loading and will give you a
little more free memory. Mouse drivers are small, but evry little bit of
free memory is helpful with Arachne.
Sam Ewalt
