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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Mouse in a windowed DOS program
Keywords: Mouse window DOS
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.012535.17977@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 91 01:25:35 GMT
References: <1991Mar31.185751.15696@uvm.edu>
Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software
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opergb@uvm.edu (Gary Bushey) writes:

>I  have a DOS program which uses the text version of mouse and I wish to run
>in it in a window (I run multiple copies and compare data).  The only problem
>is that the mouse will not work in it.
>
>Is there any way to get this to work or am I dead in the water?

Rather than running the program directly (or from a PIF), run a batch
script that first loads the mouse driver and then invokes the proram.
Remember that you probably haven't loaded the mouse driver before loading
Windows since Windows does it itself.
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