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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.periphs
Subject: Mousing around in Xenix
Message-ID: <13232@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 23 Feb 89 17:43:01 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady,NY
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I have a Dell 386 which came with a mouse. Although this will be a Xenix
machine, I find that I have a free serial port. The mouse is a Logitech
(not a clone, even) and is on a serial port.

Does someone have any info as to how I read the port?? I assume that if
I know what baudrate to set, parity, bits, etc, that it will send a
character sequence for up, down, left, right, and button up/down as they
happen.

If it's that simeple can you tell me what it wants, or point me to a
source of the info? I can think of some interesting uses for the mouse,
not traditional, but interesting.

post if you wish, mail if you don't.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me