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From: mjwargo@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Wargo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 2 or 3 button mouse for A/UX
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.011357.364@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 90 01:13:57 GMT
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Reply-To: mjwargo@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Wargo)
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In article <1990Sep20.013849.18140@ni.umd.edu>, steveg@ni.umd.edu (Steve Green) writes:
|> In article <4099@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major (Steve Dyer) writes:
|> >I heard that Boston's MacWorld Expo had a vendor featuring an ADB mouse
|> >with 3 buttons (something which helps when using X11 under A/UX.)
|> >Can anyone point me to the vendor?  Thanks.
|> 
|> If its the one I saw..  its the gravis people.  They are using a standard
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> logitech (pc) mouse with a mini-din 8 connector on it.  If you have an old
|> MouseStick, you can upgrade the main unit to work with the mouse as well.
|> 
|> This is the way I understood it to work.
|> 
|> You configure the unit in MacOS and an init "downloads" the code to the
|> control unit during boot.  You could configure the unit to push the left and
|> right arrows when the middle and right buttons are push and put the init in
|> the boot system folder.  That way, X11R4 as well as MacX could take advantage.
|> 
|> The question is whether or not the init will run under AUX.
|> -- 
|> Silica gel -- No not eat.				steveg@ni.umd.edu

Would some kind soul please indicate who the *gravis* people are (Telephone
number, address and contact person would be terrific!)

I've been trying to find a 3 button mouse for AUX and Interleaf Publisher
(under MacOS) for a long time.  e-mail responses are great, though
when I posted a similar request for info about 3-button mice, I received
a *lot* of requests for follow-up info.  A post of the information
is probably appropriate.  I hope the thing actually exists!


						Thanks,

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