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- 5/20/87
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- 'MouseOff' will cause the mouse pointer to disappear after about 10
- seconds of inactivity. It will reappear again upon movememt of the
- mouse.
-
- Usage: Run MouseOff
-
- 'MouseOFF' is public domain. Please feel free to pass it anywhere
- you want.
-
- This program was originally written by :
- Denny Jenkins
- 5226 Greensedge Way
- Columbus, Ohio 43220
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- CompuServe ID: 70003,2374
-
-
- I didn't like the executable size (appearantly Lettuce compile) and that
- there was no way to turn the program off short of rebooting in the original
- version of this program. This has led to a major hack on my part. I
- have included the original version of this program in this archive under
- the name moff.orig
-
- MouseOff now checks for ^C so now supports the 'Break' command. Ie. the
- program may be exited by the command "break <task_num>" where task_num
- is the process number of MouseOff as returned by the "Status" command.
-
- As a small advertisement for the Aztec C system, this code, even before
- I really started hacking on it, was much smaller and better behaved after
- being compiled with the Aztec compiler. The Lattice executable timing
- did not seem to work well, and the pointer got lost on me permanently
- a time or two while playing (not saving) in Preferences. This has not
- happened with the Aztec executable. Recompiling with Aztec also cut the
- executable size from over 9k to under 800 bytes !!
-
- A word of warning is still to the wise concerning Preferences and this
- program :
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- BE SURE THAT IF YOU CHANGE PREFERENCES WITH MOUSEOFF RUNNING THAT YOU
- HAVE THE POINTER VISIBLE WHEN YOU SAVE ELSE IT MAY VERY WELL WIND UP
- WITH A TRANSPARANT (READ INVISIBLE) INTUITION POINTER SAVED TO YOUR
- DEVS:SYSTEM-CONFIGURATION FILE.
-
- As the original author might not recognize this file any more, comments
- questions, whatever may also be sent to me :
-
- Tom Smythe
- RealTime Associates
- 254 N.E. 42nd
- Seattle, Wa.
- 98105
-
- (206)-547-7292
- (206)-774-4735 (ALink BBS)
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