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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS-Windows Frequently Asked Questions, draft version 0.1
Summary: mouse information was correct
Keywords: FAQ mouse, dos window
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.013523.23899@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 90 01:35:23 GMT
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In article <124272@linus.mitre.org> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
>In a recent article tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>>Q:  Why doesn't my mouse work in a DOS window?
>>
>>A:  If you are running a DOS application in a window, Windows will retain
>>    control of the mouse for cutting and pasting.  You can use a mouse in
>>    a full-screen DOS session *if* you install the mouse (by running 
>>    mouse.com) inside that DOS session.
>
>Not necessary if you ran MOUSE.COM before entering Windows, or if you have
>MOUSE.SYS listed in CONFIG.SYS. 

The original information is completely correct. If you are running a
dos application in a window, windows does not give control of the
mouse to that application. The only way you can get mouse control is
to run full screen, *not* in a window.

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