Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!umd5!oppenhei
From: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS-Windows Frequently Asked Questions, draft version 0.1
Keywords: FAQ mouse, dos window
Message-ID: <7480@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 90 20:17:49 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.142450.24240@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <124272@linus.mitre.org> <1990Oct27.013523.23899@cs.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <1990Oct27.013523.23899@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>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:
>>>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.

And the followup is completely correct too. Joe Morris was referring to the
fact that it is not necessary to run mouse.com in the DOS session (Full screen)
if you ran mouse.com before Windows or if you have mouse.sys in your config.sys.
This will help you run leaner DOS sessions.

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