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From: unbent@uncecs.edu (Jay F. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Last (current) Windows 3 problem *solved*!
Keywords: Windows 3 win3 problems solved
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.160825.4416@uncecs.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 90 16:08:25 GMT
Organization: UNC Chapel Hill
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	Promulgate the good news and let there be rejoicing in the colonies!

	With the kind help of various netlanders, my last (current) Windows 3
problem has been solved.  The mouse-in-a-DOS-app secret is, indeed, to load
the DOS app from a BAT file which loads the mouse driver first -- the cute
extra trick being that AUTOEXEC.BAT must *not* load the mouse driver, else
the later calls to MOUSE.COM think there's nothing to do (and Windows 3
masks the *global* mouse driver!).  Given all that, however, Win3 behaves as
it *should*, relinquishing the mouse to a DOS-app running full screen, but
reasserting control of it when the app is switched into a window (for
inter-application cutting and pasting).  How 'bout that!

	My thanks to all who took the time and trouble to respond to my
various cries for help during the past several weeks.  -- Jay Rosenberg

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JAY ROSENBERG  Dept. of Philosophy  CB# 3125  UNC  Chapel Hill, NC  27599
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