Thanks, Ralph, for your comprehensive treatment of my issue.
"cutemouse.txt explains"
It is just one of many instruction files in \doc\
"I am not sure about Windows 7"
I, on the other hand, AM sure.
I have WP5.1+forDOS [and TameDOS6] working quite nicely in Win7 (32bit)
"to get it even work properly under Windows XP (SP3, 32bit)"
TameDOS6 provides some useful accomodation of WP to Windows.
"Most people that use WP5.1 still (or did until recently)
do so for the fact that they are not 'mouse incumbered'
and can work quicker with the keyboard only."
I do it because it has two (3 ?) unique features
1. It has a keyboard switch for swapping (only 2) documents
2. It has an UNDELETE, as distinct from UNDO function
3. I can use the fact that features like underline and italics are colour
coded on screen
for easy colour coding of text, without ever printing italics or
underline (or bold).
[I can keep using my dot matric printer, using only as much paper as is
printed on.]
"I am not even sure if a stock WordPerfect 5.1 even is "mouse aware" to
begin with (even under plain DOS)."
I'm not sure either, but with TameDOS6 installed
I can DEFINITELY use the mouse wheel to scroll through WP documents,
however, I can NOT relocate the Insert Marker by means of the mouse.
"The mouse support of Windows should be accessible in a DOS prompt as well."
If you would enlarge (more specific detail about steps) on that, I would
like to try it out.
After typing 'cmd' into RUN
the DOS screen has an insert marker that is immune to mouse movements.
"I will play with this a bit later today and let you know what I come up
with."
That is a tantalising 'offer' - thank you.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralf A. Quint" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] CuteMouse
> At 02:36 AM 12/25/2011, J.Philippa wrote:
>>I did look in the DOCs folder
>>and apparently missed important clues.
>
> Well, the "cutemouse.txt" explains how to load/start the program with
> all it's options. However, you are in a somewhat special/borderline
> situation...
>
>
>>'forDOS'
>>indicates that my WordPerfect is a DOS program.
>>I can however, and do, use it in WinXP;
>>in fact it even works in Win7.
>
> So you actually meant "WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS"? Well, the first
> version of WordPerfect for Windows was 5.2, so that would have been
> obvious, beside that WP5.2 for Windows was a beast in itself, with
> WP6.x not much better and a finally stable Windows version not out
> until WP7.1, way to late to catch up on Microsoft Office/Word...
>
> I am not sure about Windows 7, for a client of mine we could not get
> it to work (but then this was unfortunately also a 64bit version and
> WP wouldn't run in DOSBox either) and it was a PITA to get it even
> work properly under Windows XP (SP3, 32bit).
> Most people that use WP5.1 still (or did until recently) do so for
> the fact that they are not "mouse incumbered" and can work quicker
> with the keyboard only.
> Now that I come to think of it, I am not even sure if a stock
> WordPerfect 5.1 even is "mouse aware" to begin with (even under plain
> DOS).
>
>>When I searched for DOS-driver for mouse
>>Cutemouse was one of the few results I got
>>so I though I would investigate
>>hoping that it might be applicable.
>>
>>I would REALLY like to get that feature of mouse operation
>>enabled in WordPerfect.
>
> The mouse support of Windows should be accessible in a DOS prompt as
> well. At least it works for the few DOS programs that use the mouse
> and I am using myself under Windows XP (which is my main OS at work).
> WordPerfect however has always been a bit "out of the ordinary", so
> it's possible that it doesn't like something how Windows is providing
> the INT33h API in a DOS box.
>
> I will play with this a bit later today and let you know what I come up
> with...
>
> Ralf
>
>
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