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From: R1TMARG%AKRONVM@vm1.cc.uakron.edu ( Tim Margush)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Mouse malady
Message-ID: <26684@adm.brl.mil>
Date: 26 Apr 91 15:07:33 GMT
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I too had the problem of an invisible mouse in TP6.0 IDE after running
any program.  I solved the problem by upgrading my old MOUSE.COM to a
newer MOUSE.SYS.  I now load the mouse driver in CONFIG.SYS, rather than
in my AUTOEXEC.

Now I have a new problem...  PCSHELL, which is installed memory resident,
comes up with NO MOUSE (not invisible, just no mouse).  If I run PCSHELL
from the command line, it recognizes the mouse and all is well.  If I
invoke the memory resident version on top of that, The mouse cursor is
visible, but the program does not recognize the mouse at all.

I am open to suggestions after having spent several hours trying various
things.

I have a PRO-CORP serial mouse (COM1) which appears to be Microsoft compatible.
Turbo Pascal 6.0 and PCTools V5.5.

Is there any difference between installing a device driver from config.sys
rather than from the command line (via autoexec.bat)?  My upgraded mouse driver
only came with MOUSE.SYS.

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Tim Margush                                    R1TMARG@AKRONVM.BITNET
Department of Mathematical Sciences         R1TMARG@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU
University Of Akron                        R1TMARG@AKRONVM.UAKRON.EDU
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