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From: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: *Help* Multitask DOS in windows
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Date: 10 Jun 91 14:36:56 GMT
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In <1991Jun10.021124.19430@koko.csustan.edu> jb@altair.csustan.edu (John Birchfield) writes:

>In article <1991Jun9.153805.18620@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>>
>>In article <137528@unix.cis.pitt.edu> slbst18@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Stephanie L Bearse) writes:
>>>
>>>I really need some information regarding how to use dos sessions in
>>>windows3 and be able to multitask as well as run DOS programs in the back
>>>ground. I have 386sx machine with 4 MB of RAM.  
>>>
>>>I tried using wordperfect 5.1 and ran it in a dos window and found that
>>>I couldnt use the mouse
>>
>>
>>The only known way to use a mouse with a DOS program IN A WINDOW in
>>386 mode is to have - gag- two mice. The mouse on  COM1 runs Windows
>>and the one on COM2 runs your program.

>Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.  Wrong - In 386 Enhanced mode you simply have to run
>the mouse driver program mouse.com or whatever before you bring up
>your application - I bring up a dos full screen session and bounce back
>and forth to windows etc using <Alt><ESC> <Alt><TAB> <Alt>Enter etc.
>If I decide to run a dos program that needs the mouse I simply run
>mouse.com

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.  Sorry, you are wrong.  There is no way for a DOS
program to use a mouse in a *window* except perhaps using the two mouse
method described above.

DOS programs such as WordPerfect can use the mouse in full screen mode
if the mouse driver is loaded before you start Windows.  WordPerfect is
a little strange because you must start it in full screen mode for it to
be able to detect a mouse.  If you start it in a window, it will never
use the mouse, even if you switch back to full screen mode.

Chuck







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