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From: Alastair_Mackintosh@p1002.f165.n253.z2.fidonet.org (Alastair Mackintosh)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Borland C++ mouse problem
Message-ID: <1083573720@p1002.f165.n253.z2.fidonet.org>
Date: 9 May 91 21:04:00 GMT
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Reply-To: Alastair_Mackintosh%p1002.f165.n253.z2@hippo.dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Alastair Mackintosh)
Organization: Alastair Mackintosh, Buckingham, England
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Comment-To: Doug_Kneller@f1.n6000.z2.fidonet.org (Doug Kneller)

Hi Doug

 > I've had some problems with BC++, too.  I have no
 > problems with the mouse cursor disappearing unless I
 > shell out to DOS.  Once I return from the shell I have
 > no cursor.  You can just use Repaint Desktop to get it
 > back so that isn't too big a problem as I don't spend
 > a lot of time in the DOS shell.  People have suggested
 > that I may just have an older mouse driver but I think
 > that the people with those suggestions haven't shelled
 > out to DOS |^{).
Well I've just shelled to DOS and back 25 times in a test, I do it all the time 
in normal use and my friend claims to have done it hundreds of times (!) and 
neither of us has problems. We think you have an old version mouse driver. (We 
use MOUSE.SYS v7.02).

Regards
      Alastair

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