Mail Archives: opendos/2000/11/24/19:42:05
X-Comment-To: Patrick Moran
Hi!
24-ξΟΡ-2000 05:42 pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com (Patrick Moran) wrote to
<opendos AT delorie DOT com>:
>> 23-ξΟΡ-2000 14:12 pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com (Patrick Moran) wrote to <opendos AT delorie DOT com>:
>> DRMOUSE is an old stealed CTMOUSE. I recommend to use latest CuteMouse
>> which is contain many bugfixes and uses only 3.3K instead of 7K of DRMOUSE.
>> Look at http:/www.vein.hu/~nagyd/
PM> I'll give it a try. I have tried numerous mouse drivers and have not found a
PM> good one yet.
If something in CuteMouse will not liked to you then there is big
chance to enhance/correct problem. I'm not so deaf like most software
vendors. :)
>> PM> PROMPT [DRDOS] $P$G
>> PM> ^
>> PM> These can be loaded anytime. I did not notice any difference if I loaded
>> PM> them first.
>> PROMPT is not a program, this is substitute for SET PROMPT statement,
>> also as PATH is a substitute for SET PATH statement.
PM> Yes, I know. they do not use any memory, that is why they can be used at
PM> anytime.
This statement _uses_ memory for consequent environment variable.
>> PM> SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
>> PM> SET TMP=C:\TMP
>> Why you use different directory for %TMP%?
PM> I have always had both |TEMP and \TMP directories on all drives and
PM> partitions long before this variable was included in the AUTOEXEC. mainly,
PM> stupid WINDOWS will erase everything that exists in the TEMP directory. I
? Windows _not_ earase anything in %TEMP% directory.
PM> keep files there from time to time, so I now use TMP for those files. I have
PM> had this habbit for many years and long before WINDOZE crap came around.
I have no objection against some directory for temporary work - but why
you advertise this directory for programs as temporary directory which can
be cleaned (wrong but possible behavior)? Let SET TMP will equal to C:\TEMP
and near may exist any unpublic directory, including C:\TMP.
>> PM> BREAK=OFF
>> I recommend BREAK=ON - this gives slightly more control on apps running
>> for you.
PM> It slows down the computer, so I leave it off.
How much this "slow downs the computer"? Do you have precisely timings
or this is only your suggestion?
>> B5E7 - B6B6 3.3K CTMOUSE
PM> I'll give that a try. Have you used it loaded prior to running TASK MANAGER
PM> and using a communications program such as Terminate? How does it work with
I don't use neither TASK MANAGER nor TERMINATE. I use Windows 3.x and
TERM90 from Norton Commander and have no troubles.
PM> EGA, VGA and SVGA? I have another mouse driver that I can use for the higher
PM> res graphics, but it loads a secondary TSR and is a bit flaky when
PM> installing some of the mouse stuff high. It was made specifically for my
PM> mouse. (El cheapo.)
Currently CuteMouse supports only standard video modes (0-7, 0Dh-13h)
although any screen size for text modes. For next version plans contains
"support for any text modes including non-standard VESA modes". But anyway
most programs which use nonstandard graphics modes already implement direct
cursor drawing so this is not problem in most cases.
In any case CuteMouse unlike DRMOUSE currently supports any size for
text modes, contains many bugfixes and supports Microsoft Wheel/Intellimouse
beside PS/2 and plain Microsoft/Logitech/Mouse Systems protocols.
P.S. Note: on the next week will be released final CuteMouse 1.8 which will
contain workaround for Pentium peculiarity which prevents screen size
detection on Pentium machines...
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