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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Seceret Weapns of the Luftwaffa WARNING!!! (MS Mouse too!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.205642.1391@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: conrad@actrix.gen.nz (Conrad Bullock)
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 20:56:42 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.213636.17388@umr.edu>
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
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- In article <1992Sep5.213636.17388@umr.edu> dgentges@cs.umr.edu (Doug Gentges) writes:
- > I installed seceret weapons of the luftwaffa(sp?) yesterday, and everything
- > went fine until i switched back to WPS, and found that my mouse wasn't working
- > I thought that i had simply accidently loosend the cable, so i wiggled
- > connectors, and re-started my sistem. Imagine my suprise when I got the
- > message "\os2\mdos\vmouse.sys not installed, line ?? of config.sys ignored" or
- > something to that effect. after searching for about a half an hour, i finaly
- > found the problem. Apparently, the instalation program decided that i needed
- > the new version of the logitec mouse driver that came with the game. so it
- > copied the new driver to d:\os2\mouse.sys. how nice of it. after unpacking
- > the os/2 mouse.sys from disk 3, I decided it might be good to mark all the
- > .exe files in my os2 directory as read-only. I dont know if this is the
- > only lucasfilm game that dose this, but you may want to take some precautions
- > if you are installing any of their games.
-
- The Microsoft Mouse install program does the same thing - I installed a new
- version of the DOS driver (from the DOS box), and it went and replaced my
- OS/2 MOUSE.SYS with the DOS one - without telling me.
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