NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/os/msdos/programm/11866

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From: [e-mail] (Denis Beauregard)
Subject: Re: Mouse incompatibility
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:46:43 GMT
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More Mouse questions.

First, my partial mouse problem is probably an internal bug.
In other words, I have on a few systems the mouse working OK,
and on other the mouse is just not working at all.

Then, I explored with int 0x33 list, the different mouse interface
and even replaced the mouse driver.  I had a MSCMOUSE and thought it
was MS-C Mouse.  No, it was actually a Mouse System Corp mouse.

So, my question is now:

Since different mouse drivers are obviously not compatible, how do
big software to read different mouses?  There are different way of connecting
a mouse (bus mouse, COMx mouse), so, I think these software are using
the mouse driver provided with the mouse, but use those less documented
functions (the Mouse System and other not MS)?  Or is there some call
to tell a Mouse System or other mouse to emulate the MS mouse?
And my deep brain memory tells me something about a mouse I owned
previously: it was a Genius I think and you had to depress a button
(or something like that) to have the mouse emulating the MS Mouse package.
So, I presume there is a mouse call that will enable that emulation mode.

I checked on Simtel20 list of files and found no universal mouse driver
nor a text file about the problem of using any mouse.

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