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- From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
- Subject: Microsoft Mouse Driver - SUMMARY *******************************
- Message-ID: <C0FGGM.B94@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 10:14:46 GMT
- Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK
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- Microsoft Mouse driver v8.20 - command line switches - Summary
-
- I recieved some very prompt replies to my post, all via email. I include
- the text from a couple of them below.
-
- It seems that the driver only supports the switch /Y - which is explained
- below. The driver contains text stating:
-
- /i /z /c /b invalid
-
- Parameters /U /E /X no longer supported
-
- Also the driver repeats all its instructions in 9 languages - English,
- French, Dutch, German, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portugese, and Italian.
-
- My warmest thanks to everyone who responded to my post.
-
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- Response #1 of 2
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- If you find out, let me know. Microsoft issues those mouse drivers with
- just about everything, and doesn't include any documentation. I've
- figured out that
- /Cx => on comx
- /Sxx => sensitivity from 10 to 100
- /Hxx
- /Vxx => horizontal and vertical sensitivity, if you want different
- values.
-
- The strange thing is that the Microsoft driver sometimes (rarely) loads
- and runs with my Chicony trackball, and sometimes it doesn't. Also, have
- you ever looked inside the driver? It has instructions in about 20
- different languages. Strange. I have no idea how to get them to work.
- Setting country= doens't do it. Not that I really need my mouse to send
- me error messages in Norewigan.
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- Response #2 of 2
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- There are no switches for the 8.20 ver of MOUSE.COM except for the "/Y" one
- which means "no hardware cursor". This switch is needed on some Video 7
- and a few other graphics cards because the card uses a graphic cursor
- (sprite) instead of the standard block cursor in DOS programs. This messes
- up mouse support for DOS programs under Windows.
-
- To control the mouse program make changes in the MOUSE.INI file, normally
- contained in your C:\WINDOWS directory. This file controls the mouse program.
-
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