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From: sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu
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Subject: Logitech Mouse Programmer's Toolkit
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Date: 7 Jun 91 17:41:13 GMT
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I finally ordered the Logitech Mouse Programmer's Toolkit for 25 bucks +
shipping.  And it is AWESOME!

This thing blows away the Microsoft Mouse Programmer's Reference (a laughable
piece of work to begin with) so badly it's scary.  For example, Logitech
provides low level information (line values, how to decode the byte stream from
the moues, etc. ), technical info (the differences between mice and how to
determine them using the DTR and and some other line), programming information
that is VERY complete (including why certain returns occur, how to do things
the right way, what the parameters REALLY mean, etc.), an ASM library that
implements ALL of the calls (and it is compilable with MASM and TASM in large
and small model, and the routines are callable from C, ASM, and Pascal, and
Modula 2), code fragments in C, Modula-2, and ASM, a working demo, .OBJ code
for the libraries (if you don't have ASM), etc. etc.

The reference book also includes do's and don'ts (MS is severaly lacking on
this) and just completely does not leave any question unanswered.  It includes
two diskettes (3.5 and 5.25") containing the libraries and a READ.ME file.

For all interested, this is the best, period.  Compared to the MS Programmer's
Reference...heh heh...sad sad sad sad sad....

I don't have the address (work ordered it) but a previous posting did have the
address.  You must order it directly from Logitech.

Oh yeah, it is 100% MS compatible (but includes clearly marked Logitech
extensions to the driver).

Brian
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Brian Hook -- MS-DOS Programmer for Contract
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"I was in the kitchen, Seamus, that's my dog, was outside....and buried
ALIVE....fritter and waste...but this one goes to 11!....anymore of that
plutonium nyborg?...Little guitars..This is home...this is Mean Street..
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