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From: danr@bcsfse.boeing.com (Dan Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Mouse Programming
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Date: 15 May 91 23:49:13 GMT
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Bryan,
  If I may, do you know if the Mitsu mouse is Microsoft compatible? If it is,
then you may be able to use some routines I wrote years ago that have worked
quite well through all the weird environments I've used them in. They're written
in Borland C (downward compatible with Turbo C as I wrote them in 1986) and use
the Microsoft Mouse driver (MOUSE.SYS) for the workload. They consist primarily of
int86() calls and (if I remember correctly) they are pretty well commented, if I
do say so myself :-). (There's no conceit in my family, I've got it all!)
  If you're interested, I can send you the C source file if you send me a HD 3.5"
diskette formatted with DOS 4.01 or earlier. E-mail me if you'd like a copy and
we can work out the details. No charge for this service of course; I like to
think that when I get in a bind, the good folks out there are more than willing
to share the intellectual wealth...a kind of mental "hand up" so to speak.
  Oh, one word about my mouse library: I haven't updated it since version 6.24
of Microsoft's driver, so I may not have some of the more "exotic" interrupt
sub-functions in my code. Darn, I keep meaning to send off to Microsoft for the
latest driver. Making a mental note of that....

Best of luck!

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