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- From: solomon@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Robert F. Solomon)
- Subject: Mouse in a DOS Session--Help
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- Date: 9 Nov 1992 14:04 EST
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- Can anyone tell me how to make my mouse work with a DOS application
- ?
-
- Here is the situation. I have a Mouse Systems three button mouse
- running on COM2. It works fine in OS2 and WinOS2 (although sluggish in
- WinOS2). I am using the GA release of OS2 without a problem.
-
- I use Paradox under DOS as my database. I have it customized to use
- a mouse control mechanism which creates custom mouse menus.
-
- Under regular DOS, MSCMOUSE.COM is loaded by autoexec.bat as the
- mouse driver. Then a POPUP program (a TSR) is run to enable the customized
- menus. The menu is run by its own program titled PDX.
-
- Under Windows (ms) this is accomplished with a batch file as
- follows:
-
- <path>mscmouse /2 (for com2)
- <path>popup
- <path>pdx
- cd c:\paradox
- paradox
-
- The program runs fine, and the mouse performs as intended when run
- in DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1.
-
- I migrated paradox to OS2 and it seems to run properly. But I
- cannot get the mouse to run. I tried using the same batch file as above,
- but I always get the message "Com port not available". I tried setting the
- DOS_DEVICE in the seesions box, but popup tells me the driver is not loaded
- and refuses to load itself.
-
- Any help?
-
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- | Robert F. Solomon | What I Said Is Not Necessarily |
- | NASA Lewis Research Center | What I Meant. |
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