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From: dpm@cs.cmu.edu (David Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Mouse bug in Turbo C++
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Date: 22 Aug 90 14:24:05 GMT
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>    I am running TC++ on a Zenith AT compatible with a Genius mouse and 4DOS. 
>    when I shell out to DOS and return I no longer have a mouse cursor.  The
>    mouse is still active, but I have no clue where it is pointing.

> This is not a bug with TC++, but rather a bug with Genius's mouse driver.
> Call genius, get the new version. A friend of mine had this problem, before
> they shipped the newest driver. Once he ran it, however, he had no problems.

I've got a Mouse Systems mouse with a similar problem.  Whenever I
switch back from the user screen to the IDE screen, the cursor has
disappeared.  If I "feel" my way around and choose the screen refresh
menu item, it reappears.  Does anyone know if a driver update will fix
this?

Thanks,
David
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 David P. Maynard (dpm@cs.cmu.edu)
 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA  15213
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