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From: ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard)
Subject: Re: Mouse Pointer lost with Word for Dos
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 17:55:46 GMT

In article <91080.112457BP3@psuvm.psu.edu> Larry Belan <BP3@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>   The mouse works in both DOS and os/2 modes fine...except
>   when I run wither copy of WORD as an OS/2 application.
>   With the screen options set as a graphics screen (under word)
>    the mouse pointer dissapears.
 
The readme.doc file that comes with Word 5.0 describes exactly this
behaviour.  See the section "Mouse Support and OS/2".
I don't have 5.5, but sounds like they still haven't fixed it. (Nearly
two years after the release of 5.0.  Another indication of just how much effort
Microsoft are putting in to making OS/2 a success :-(  .)


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