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From: caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Another 2.0 idea
Message-ID: <caw.3065@miroc.Chi.IL.US>
Date: 10 Oct 90 18:56:05 GMT
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Not too long ago I picked up MouseOff (by Mike Meyer) which runs under
2.0's commodities handler to provide mouse blanking.  It works pretty well,
except that I have a couple of programs that don't like MouseOff enabled
(M1 Tank Platoon crashes when it tries to blank the mouse and A10 Tank
Killer gets a black image of the mouse frozen in the screen, for example).
Thus, to use these programs I have to disable MouseOff.  Well, you know how
it goes, every once in a while one forgets and then you do the bitch and
moan as the machine reboots.  So I got to thinking, it would be cool if
Commodities Exchange had an ARexx port in it (or does it already, and I
just haven't found it?).  That way I could write nice little ARexx scripts
to start these programs that disable MouseOff for me and then turn it back
on when I am done playing.  I am sure there are some other cool toys that
could be created if Commodities Exchange had an ARexx port.

So what do you folks think?

-=> CAW

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