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- EDMOUSE
- Enable/Disable Mouse Driver Utility
- Copyright (C) 1991 Wonder Box Software
- Author : Nick Ross
-
- When using some VGA cards (even the ones that are register compatible
- with the IBM standard) whilst a mouse driver is installed, it is not
- possible to get the card to emulate CGA. When the card switches to
- CGA, the screen goes blank until another video mode is selected. In
- the past my only solution to the problem of needing to run CGA
- applications was to enter the VGA card software supplied with the card
- and select CGA mode, then reboot in this mode. The fact that CGA was
- called before the mouse driver would cause CGA to work as well as the
- mouse driver. Having to warm-boot one's system in order to run a
- single application is obviously not desirable. In the end, I wrote
- what now forms the core of the EDMOUSE utility into my menu program in
- order to turn the mouse driver off before selecting CGA, and then turn
- it back on again after the CGA application had been used, and the user
- is returned to the VGA menu environment. I thought that there would be
- other users who might find this routine useful so I built a utility
- framework around it, to enable other users to use it as a command
- line/batch file command. EDMOUSE can also be used if, for example, you
- wish to use a program that supports both a mouse and the keyboard
- concurrently, and as such has a flashing mouse cursor constantly on,
- to get rid of the flashing cursor if you don't wish to use the mouse
- to control the program.
-
- EDMOUSE will work with all Microsoft compatible mouse drivers (no
- checking is done to see if a mouse driver exists or not, if EDMOUSE is
- run without a mouse driver installed the call to the mouse driver is
- ignored and has no undesirable effect on the system).
-
- The command format for EDMOUSE is as follows :
-
- EDMOUSE [/E|/D|/H] (although the '/' character can be replaced with
- ':' if required)
-
- As can be seen, EDMOUSE supports three switches, used as follows :
-
- /E - to enable the mouse driver
- /D - to disable the mouse driver
- /H - to provide a help screen of the information provided here (this
- can also be achieved by not providing EDMOUSE with any switches).
-