Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!SIMTEL20.ARPA!WANCHO From: WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA ("Frank J. Wancho") Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: RS Mouse Compatibility Message-ID: Date: 29 Jan 88 23:36:00 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 Gern, Tired of waiting and waiting for the LogiTech mouse to show up on one of our orders in the office, I went out and bought the cheaper of the two Radio Shack mice. It requires the use of their 9-25-pin connector or make up your own - you cannot use the 9-25-pin connector provided under the Zenith 248 contract - different cross-connects. We hooked it into the WYSE-pc, hence the need for the 9-25 in the first place. I haven't tried hooking it directly to the Z248 yet - if that does work, then there's something screwy with my notes on the cross-connects. It also requires the use of their MOUSE.SYS (or MOUSE.COM) and CPANEL.COM (to set the sensitivity). Any RS store should provide you a copy of those three on your disk at no charge and no hassle. (They come on the supplemental GWBASIC/Utilities MSDOS disk for their machines.) It seems to work fine with MS-Windows, but the sensitivity setting is lost on exit. We haven't gotten it to work (yet) with KEY-DRAW. The LOCATEPC program works with it as well, and that, in turn, works with such programs as MICRO-EMACS and BASIC, converting the mouse signals to the corresponding arrow key escape sequences. About the only complaints are that the sensitivity setting is not remembered on reboot, and lifting the mouse off the surface generates a movement signal. --Frank